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From:	Thomas Shanks <thomas DOT shanks AT gmail DOT com>
Date:	Fri, 2 Jul 2010 16:23:27 -0400
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Subject:	Answer: How to fix error "strace: error creating process vim, (error 2)"
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Since no one bothered to reply to my previous message (help the cygwin
newbies, yall!), I'll post the answer.


If you get:

~$ strace vim
strace: error creating process vim, (error 2)
~$ strace

It's because vim is a symlink, and strace can't follow symlinks, as
it's not a cygwin.dll program.

Instead, figure out where 'vim' (or whatever) goes.

~$ realpath `which vim`
/usr/bin/gvim.exe
~$ strace /usr/bin/gvim.exe

The strace manpage does say this now (in a roundabout way), but I
didn't have the requisite optional manpage package installed at the
time.


DEVS: PLEASE file the missing error message text in strace (a
cygwin-specific program!) as a bug, as the error message isn't missing
(and replaced with cryptic "error 2") on other platforms.

Thomas Shanks

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