On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:49:44AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >> In other words, strace is mistakenly performing glob expansion on the >> subsidiary arguments to the program being traced, when we really wanted to >> trace ls with a literal argument of "*". > >And this strace limitation (bug?) was just a red herring.
strace doesn't do glob expansion. Cygwin does glob expansion when it is run by a non-cygwin application. That is more-or-less what strace is. There is no easy way around this. 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/
