19990705 snapshot

[Chris Faylor]

On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 01:26:38AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Chris Faylor wrote:
>> [...]
>> >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.
>> 
>> Just in case this isn't clear:  if CreateProcess is finding a non-cygwin
>> version of the program you're not going to see any output in the strace
>> output file.
>
>It was already clear but I got the same result (empty trace output) with
>
>	strace -f -o ls.out /usr/bin/ls -l
>
>but now I have a new result: 
>
>	This happens under tcsh only! With bash, trace is ok!
>
>Why should the shell (the parent process of strace!) should have
>any influence in that???

I don't know.  Have you tried debugging strace?  Also, have you tried
the patch that I posted?

cgf