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Re: [1.7] Backslash incorrectly triggers DOS style path warning


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?


Corinna

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