problems running simple map-reduce hadoop examples in cygwin

Question

I am just trying to get Hadoop running on my laptop running 64-bit Windows 7 in standalone mode. I\'ve installed Cygwin 1.7 in the default folder (c:\\cygwin). I have the late

Answer 1

fixed (major yak shaving)

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7682?focusedCommentId=13236645#comment-13236645