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From:	"Paul Derbyshire" <derbyshire AT globalserve DOT net>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date:	Sat, 27 Jul 2002 19:41:57 -0400
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: Mysterious gdb behavior.
Reply-to:	derbyshire AT globalserve DOT net
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On 27 Jul 2002 at 16:26, Nicholas Wourms wrote:

> 
> --- Paul Derbyshire <derbyshire AT globalserve DOT net> wrote:
> > On 27 Jul 2002 at 6:50, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > > Now why is it suddenly complaining that perfectly good
> > executables 
> > > > are bad? Or if the executables really are bad, why the hell do
> > they 
> > > > *work* (at least, run and crash rather than fail to run at all)
> > when 
> > > > launched from bash? Bash and gdb presumably spawn processes in
> > the 
> > > > same way, however unix does that, and with the cygwin
> > compatibility 
> > > > layer between that and however Windows spawns processes.
> > > > 
> > > Did you try this with several executable files ?
> > > The error could come from a single hosed file.
> > 
> > $ gdb -nw hw
> > GNU gdb 5.0 (20010428-3)
> > Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Pu
> > welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it
> > Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "sho
> > This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...
> > (gdb) run
> > Starting program: /home/Paul Derbyshire/antheria/hw.exe
> > Error creating process /home/Paul Derbyshire/antheria/hw.exe,
>                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> *SIGH*  Looks like someone didn't read the FAQ...

Excuse me? Should I not be trying to gdb executables under /home, or 
something?

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