-exec: bash: Invalid argument

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After upgrading to 0.4.4 from cygwin 1.7 mirrors, mintty fails as soon as it 
begins with the error:

"-exec: bash: Invalid argument"

The message is very hard to see because the window closes fast, if you're 
quick you can grab the title bar before it closes and read the message. FWIW, 
running Cygwin.bat directly seems to work from cmd.exe, so I'm guessing the 
way mintty calls bash has been deprecated in a recent version of cygwin 1.7?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by marshall...@gmail.com on 31 Jul 2009 at 10:46

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• bashinvalidarg.jpg

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Looks like it's a bug in the Cygwin DLL:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-08/msg00002.html

Please update to 1.7.0-55 when that becomes available on the mirrors. Meanwhile,
invoking it like this from "Run command" or the Vista/7 search box seems to 
work: 

\cygwin\bin\mintty bash -l

Original comment by andy.koppe on 1 Aug 2009 at 4:06

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Alternatively, downgrade cygwin back to 1.7.0-52.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 1 Aug 2009 at 4:26

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This is fixed properly in cygwin-1.7.0-56.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 2 Aug 2009 at 11:47

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Original comment by andy.koppe on 12 Aug 2009 at 6:05

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