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diff --git a/winsup/doc/how-programming.texinfo b/winsup/doc/how-programming.texinfo index 1140d0954..6795ad9b0 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/how-programming.texinfo +++ b/winsup/doc/how-programming.texinfo @@ -397,16 +397,6 @@ programs with various debug and trace messages enabled. For information on using @code{strace}, see the Cygwin User's Guide or the file @code{winsup/utils/utils.sgml}. -Alternatively, you can set the @code{STRACE} environment variable to -@code{1}, and get a whole load of debug information on your screen -whenever a Cygwin app runs. This is an especially useful tool to use -when tracking bugs down inside the Cygwin library. @code{STRACE} can be -set to different values to achieve different amounts of granularity. -You can set it to @code{0x10} for information about syscalls or -@code{0x800} for signal/process handling-related info, to name two. The -strace mechanism is well documented in the Cygwin library sources in the -file @code{winsup/cygwin/include/sys/strace.h}. - @subsection Why doesn't gdb handle signals? Unfortunately, there is only minimal signal handling support in gdb |