At 18:29 2003-07-22, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:23:13PM -0400, David A. Cobb wrote: >Recently, I was trying to do "strace Xemacs . . ." >First I got a "No such file" error, so I changed to do "strace `which >xemacs` " -- still a failure. > >which xemacs returns "/usr/local/bin/xemacs.exe.lnk"; that is, my normal >handle to launch xemacs is a symlink to the executable whose name or >location varies with the version-number. > >Given that its purpose is to locate what executable file one will use in >a particular environment, should not 'which' resolve the symlink and >return its target?
No.
>What would happen on *nix?
The same thing as on cygwin.
Really?
Since Cygwin "strace" is not a Cygwin program, it does not get Cygwin symbolic links resolved. Whereas on Unix or Linux, a symlink would be resolved by the kernel if it was used by strace and it (strace) would successfully get its target executed.
So wouldn't the behavior on Cygwin differ from a comparable invocation on Linux or Unix?
Randall Schulz
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