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>>>What would happen on *nix? >> >>The same thing as on cygwin. > >Really? > >Since Cygwin "strace" is not a Cygwin program, it does not get Cygwin >symbolic links resolved. Whereas on Unix or Linux, a symlink would be >resolved by the kernel if it was used by strace and it (strace) would >successfully get its target executed.
AFAIK, we were talking about "which" not strace. I thought it was obvious why strace wasn't working. strace will translate cygwin paths these days but it won't (yet) follow cygwin symlinks.
Right. My mistake.
RRS
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