Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.2.20030722212543.039e6af0@pop.sonic.net> X-Sender: rschulz@pop.sonic.net Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 21:27:54 -0700 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: How to resolve a link? In-Reply-To: <20030723030813.GC4170@redhat.com> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030722194744.03ac0e38@pop.sonic.net> <3F1DE381.7010605@cox.net> <3F1DE381.7010605@cox.net> <5.2.1.1.2.20030722194744.03ac0e38@pop.sonic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/