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