Since no one bothered to reply to my previous message (help the cygwin newbies, yall!), I'll post the answer.
If you get: ~$ strace vim strace: error creating process vim, (error 2) ~$ strace It's because vim is a symlink, and strace can't follow symlinks, as it's not a cygwin.dll program. Instead, figure out where 'vim' (or whatever) goes. ~$ realpath `which vim` /usr/bin/gvim.exe ~$ strace /usr/bin/gvim.exe The strace manpage does say this now (in a roundabout way), but I didn't have the requisite optional manpage package installed at the time. DEVS: PLEASE file the missing error message text in strace (a cygwin-specific program!) as a bug, as the error message isn't missing (and replaced with cryptic "error 2") on other platforms. Thomas Shanks -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
