On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:08:26PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Apr 22 12:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> 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. > >`set CYGWIN=noglob' should help, shouldn't it?
Hmm. Yes. Good idea. I guess strace itself could set that under the theory that any command line arguments it has received should not be glob expanded. I'll check in a fix for that. 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/
