On 2020-11-01 10:59, Oleksandr Gavenko via Cygwin wrote:
> I tried to find out what processes emacs-w32 is starting for my custom
> TRAMP method.
> 
> "strace -f emacs-w32" fails.
> 
> I expected to succeed with procmon & its filter " Command/ Process Start".
> 
> Unfortunately procmon [1] doesn't report "argv" if a Cygwin executable is
> started from a Cygwin executable. If I run a Cygwin app from the Windows
> environment it captures positional arguments.
> 
> Is there some option to make positional arguments visible to procmon?
> 
> I could find it in:
> 
> * https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html
> * https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html
> 
> Please keep my email in CC...
> 
> [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon

Package procps-ng /usr/bin/procps, and /proc/*/cmdline (null terminated args):

$ procps -aeflw

Suggest:

$ alias cyg-proc=/usr/bin/proc
$ alias proc=/usr/bin/procps

$ head /proc/*/cmdline | cat -A; echo

see attached logs for output.

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