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