X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:59:23 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [1.7] Backslash incorrectly triggers DOS style path warning Message-ID: <20090422165923.GB19752@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <49EC78A0.6050602@cornell.edu> <49EC7A7D.2050706@cornell.edu> <20090420211453.GB3143@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20090421235020.GA593@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <49EE7BC1.1070400@gmail.com> <49EF0674.9090605@cornell.edu> <49EF0C6E.6010808@byu.net> <49EF1268.6060607@byu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49EF1268.6060607@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:49:44AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >> In other words, strace is mistakenly performing glob expansion on the >> subsidiary arguments to the program being traced, when we really wanted to >> trace ls with a literal argument of "*". > >And this strace limitation (bug?) was just a red herring. strace doesn't do glob expansion. Cygwin does glob expansion when it is run by a non-cygwin application. That is more-or-less what strace is. There is no easy way around this. cgf -- 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/