X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:08:26 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [1.7] Backslash incorrectly triggers DOS style path warning Message-ID: <20090422170826.GR8722@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <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> <20090422165923.GB19752@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090422165923.GB19752@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) 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 Apr 22 12:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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. `set CYGWIN=noglob' should help, shouldn't it? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/