19990705 snapshot

[Chris Faylor]

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.

>starts /Program Files/NTRESKIT/LS.EXE
>
>Why?

Dunno.  I have two ls's in my path and CreateProcess finds the correct
one.

cgf