On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:24:19PM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote: >Perhaps the problem is whether strace likes cygwin paths, or wants >Windoze paths:
Nope. The problem is a cockpit error. >506 $ touch ~/.xemacs/strace.out >507 $ strace --output=~/.xemacs/strace.out "xemacs -debug-init >-debug-paths 2>~/.xemacs/startup.log" >strace.exe: can't open ~/.xemacs/strace.out: No such file or directory As on UNIX, "~" is expanded by the shell but only when it begins a word. Shells don't expand things that are preceded by an '='. >508 $ strace "xemacs -debug-init -debug-paths 2>~/.xemacs/startup.log" >strace.exe: error creating process xemacs -debug-init -debug-paths >2>~/.xemacs/startup.log, (error 2) You are telling strace to run a program called: "xemacs -debug-init -debug-paths 2>~/.xemacs/startup.log" Don't quote the arguments to strace. strace doesn't start a shell to interpret things like 2> or "~". -- 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/
