Greetings, Simon Matthews! > Because of historical reasons, I have a number of Windows virtual > machines with 32-bit cygwin installed, including the cygwin sshd service.
> It appears to be impossible to start a 64-bit bash session from a 32-bit > session. However, it there is a way to do this, the rest of the post is > not relevant. There's a way, you can tell sshd to use a custom binary as a special service, and start about anything that way. Probably you'd need a simple wrapper to bridge the gap between the worlds, but that should be easy, > During the transition to 64-bit cygwin, I would like to start a 64-bit > sshd service on a second port (2222, perhaps). When the transition is > fully complete, I will remove the 32-bit sshd service. The current state of 64-bit Cygwin is such that there's hardly any need for 32-bit one, unless you have a VERY specific reason. I'd suggest to collect your usage information, try your stuff out in a 64-bit Cygwin, and once it all works up to the expectation, just roll out a switch. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Wednesday, February 11, 2026 21:00:43 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
