On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 10:52:01AM -0500, Tom Rodman wrote: >Then, I ran: > > C:\>c:\aut\cyg\bin\strace -o/tmp/strace.out /bin/bash > bash-3.00$ exec /bin/ls -l /etc/passwd
The strace shows that /bin/ls is a shell script. I suspect that's at least part of your problem. Maybe you have both a /bin/ls and a /bin/ls.exe? > 513 13523662 [main] bash 5608 spawn_guts: priority class 32 > 240 13523902 [main] bash 5608 fhandler_console::need_invisible: > invisible_console 0 > 144 13524046 [main] bash 5608 spawn_guts: null_app_name 0 > (c:\aut\cyg\bin\sh.exe, c:\aut\cyg\bin\sh.exe /bin/ls -l /etc/passwd) 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/