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Re: release schedule and a problem on getopt_long.
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:45:14 -0400
- Subject: Re: release schedule and a problem on getopt_long.
- References: <s1sn0tmh9e5.fsf@jaist.ac.jp> <s1sit4agxju.fsf@jaist.ac.jp>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 06:21:41PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>>> On 23 Jun 2002 14:05:54 +0900
>>>> Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp> said:
>
>> By the way, I seemed to find a problem in getopt_long causing
>> a trouble for cygpath and strace. I'm tracking down it now.
>
>This trouble was caused by my fault.
>
>The trouble was that I wasn't able to feed arguments to cygpath
>and strace when they were installed in /bin. I jumped to the
>wrong idea that there were some problems in getopt.
>
>I've forgotten I set the `cygexec' flag to /bin and /usr/bin in
>my mount table a few weeks ago, sigh.
Argh. I've done that myself. It's a problem. This is one reason
why I don't always recommend setting cygexec.
However, I think this should be a problem only for strace.exe and
cygcheck.exe. I don't see why cygpath should be affected.
cgf