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At 20:08 2003-07-22, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>...
>
> >>>What would happen on *nix?
> >>
> >>The same thing as on cygwin.
> >
> >Really?
> >
> >Since Cygwin "strace" is not a Cygwin program, it does not get Cygwin
> >symbolic links resolved. Whereas on Unix or Linux, a symlink would be
> >resolved by the kernel if it was used by strace and it (strace) would
> >successfully get its target executed.
>
>AFAIK, we were talking about "which" not strace.  I thought it was obvious
>why strace wasn't working.  strace will translate cygwin paths these days
>but it won't (yet) follow cygwin symlinks.


Right. My mistake.

RRS


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