At 20:08 2003-07-22, Christopher Faylor wrote:
...

>>>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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