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[Corinna Vinschen]

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???
> 
> Corinna

...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

In the environment variable $PATH, /usr/bin is mentioned earlier than
/Program Files/NTRESKIT. On commandline

	ls -l

starts /usr/bin/ls,

	strace ... ls -l

starts /Program Files/NTRESKIT/LS.EXE

Why?

Corinna