On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 07:56:02PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: >Chris, > >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.
AFAIK, we were talking about "which" not strace. I thought it was obvious why strace wasn't working. strace will translate cygwin paths these days but it won't (yet) follow cygwin symlinks. -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
