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Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:45:14 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: release schedule and a problem on getopt_long.
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On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 06:21:41PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>>> On 23 Jun 2002 14:05:54 +0900
>>>> Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp> said:
>
>> By the way, I seemed to find a problem in getopt_long causing
>> a trouble for cygpath and strace. I'm tracking down it now.
>
>This trouble was caused by my fault.
>
>The trouble was that I wasn't able to feed arguments to cygpath
>and strace when they were installed in /bin. I jumped to the
>wrong idea that there were some problems in getopt.
>
>I've forgotten I set the `cygexec' flag to /bin and /usr/bin in
>my mount table a few weeks ago, sigh.

Argh.  I've done that myself.  It's a problem.  This is one reason
why I don't always recommend setting cygexec.

However, I think this should be a problem only for strace.exe and
cygcheck.exe.  I don't see why cygpath should be affected.

cgf