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Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 18:36:45 -0400
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
To: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
Cc: cygwin-developers <cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: 19990705 snapshot
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In-Reply-To: <19990710183507.A1841@cygnus.com>; from Chris Faylor on Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 06:35:08PM -0400

On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 06:35:08PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 09:53:39PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> I have another problem. I can't find any reason for this:
>>> E.g.
>>>         strace -o ls.out ls -l
>>> 
>>> leads into an empty trace output file. No other error or warning
>>> message. Debugging is a little difficult in that way...
>>> The result is the same with -f option. What's going wrong here???
>>
>>...and a second problem:
>>
>>I have two programs named `ls' on my pc. One is /usr/bin/ls (without
>>.exe suffix) and the other is /Program Files/NTRESKIT/LS.EXE
>
>It sounds to me like you have one problem.  The CreateProcess in strace
>is finding the non-cygwin version of ls.  I have no idea why this is
>since it is not happening to me.

Just in case this isn't clear:  if CreateProcess is finding a non-cygwin
version of the program you're not going to see any output in the strace
output file.

cgf