Strange Thread Stack size error running Cygwin build

I was adding -Xss128k as a JAVA_OPS like this:

export JAVA_OPTS="-Xms1024m -Xmx1024m -Xss128k"

then when running Jetty I ran into the following issue:

[mknuts6173c@/cygdrive/c/usr/git_workspaces/xivr/d2(master)]$ buildr clean jetty test=no
(in C:/usr/git_workspaces/xivr/d2, development)
Cleaning d2
Buildr aborted!
SystemStackError : stack level too deep

Looking into Cygwin a little more and looking at the current stack limit is set to 2,034 and cannot be changed.

[mknuts6173c@~]$ ulimit -a
core file size          (blocks, -c) unlimited
data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
open files                      (-n) 256
pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8
stack size              (kbytes, -s) 2034
cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes              (-u) 256
virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) 2097152