X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:59:23 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: [1.7] Backslash incorrectly triggers DOS style path warning Message-ID: <20090422165923.GB19752@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <49EC78A0 DOT 6050602 AT cornell DOT edu> <49EC7A7D DOT 2050706 AT cornell DOT edu> <20090420211453 DOT GB3143 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20090421235020 DOT GA593 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <49EE7BC1 DOT 1070400 AT gmail DOT com> <49EF0674 DOT 9090605 AT cornell DOT edu> <49EF0C6E DOT 6010808 AT byu DOT net> <49EF1268 DOT 6060607 AT byu DOT 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 AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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/