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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:23:32 -0500 (CDT)
From: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:13:44PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
> >FOO=`cygpath -S < /dev/null`
> >does not hang.
>
> I forget have you tried making this:
>
> FOO=`strace -owhereever cygpath -S`
>
> I seem to recall that this worked ok but I can't find this
> usage anywhere in this neverending thread.
>
Unfortunately, it does not.  strace hangs just as cygpath does.

It was here:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00517.html

I wasn't subscribed to the mailing list then, so I didn't know how to
continue a thread properly ie. no reply possible, just cut and paste from
the archives.

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Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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