On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 11:00:14AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > As for taking different actions based on the command by which a program > was called, look at the fsck family, bzless and bzmore, mh's show, next, > and prev, and a lot of other things that show up in find / -type f | > -links 1 =). Oh, and this case we were just looking at, about xterm > changing the resources it loads based on the name by which it was > called. My point is, though it may be considered bad practice, because > it violates the principle of least surprise (e.g. when a symlink doesn't > work as expected), but it's out there, and it's being used, so don't be > /too/ surprised when you get bitten by it. > > good times, > Vineet
Hmmm... bzless and bzmore are shell scripts, which makes perfect sense in that they do more than bzip2. I am still not certain how this applies to my original question. Even if an executable can tell whether or not it is being called by a symlink, why should the xterm binary be coded to disregard the ~/.Xresources file? How does that help? Thanks, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
