Cygwin is not passing arguments to Windows apps

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Karl Crary via Cygwin writes:
> I am encountering a bug wherein Cygwin is not passing arguments to
> most Windows programs (although Cygwin programs are doing fine).

What you are encountering is unlikely a bug in Cygwin.

> For example, the following command ought to be dumping a lot of usage
> information, but instead it starts a command prompt, which is what it
> does when not passed any argument.
>
>
> $ cmd /?

WJFFM (example done in sh):

$ PATH+=:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32
$ cmd /?
Startet eine neue Instanz des Windows Befehlsinterpreters.

CMD [/A | /U] [/Q] [/D] [/E:ON | /E:OFF] [/F:ON | /F:OFF] [/V:ON | /V:OFF]
    [[/S] [/C | /K] Zeichenfolge]
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Regards,
Achim.
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