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 From: ericblake@comcast.net (Eric Blake) To: Krzysztof Duleba , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: .exe magic doesn't work with gprof Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:39:56 +0000 Message-Id: <072020051439.17506.42DE623C00091DC20000446222073007930A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> X-Authenticated-Sender: ZXJpY2JsYWtlQGNvbWNhc3QubmV0 > > But how does gprof know that foo doesn't exist? It has to open or stat it. > I thought that both open and stat calls support exe magic. stat() and exec*() support exe magic, open() does not. I don't know exactly how gprof works, but it is probably doing an open() and failing, and as such needs to be patched if exe magic is desirable. (Same goes to the binutils strip). -- Eric Blake -- 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/