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Re: problem with 2001-10-26 snapshot (now also 2001-10-29)
On Monday 29 Oct 01, Christopher Faylor writes:
> >Sorry for the lack of detail, but I can't get strace to do anything
> >with this. It just returns immediately with no output. Is
> ><http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#STRACE> up to date?
>
> Yes. If you have mounted your /bin directory using the '-X' option,
> however, strace won't work correctly since it is not a cygwin binary.
Ah. That was the hint I needed. I had been supplying strace with a
cygwin path to rsync.
Now that strace is working, the problem goes away. So I'll just use
strace to invoke rsync from now on. :-)
> It sounds like you need to debug this problem using gdb. That means
> building a debugging version of cygwin1.dll.
Sigh. OK. But don't delay 1.3.4 on account of this, because I have
no idea when I will get to it.
Cheers,
David