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Re: How to resolve a link?
- From: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit at cox dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:38:37 -0400
- Subject: Re: How to resolve a link?
- Organization: CoxNet User
- References: <3F1DE381.7010605@cox.net> <20030723012957.GC3329@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: Superbiskit at cox dot net, Cygwin Discussion <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
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.
OK, but would strace be equally unable to start the subprocess from a
link?
IIRC, one major irritation in Windoz is that one cannot do certain
operations via a link ("shortcut") whereas in *nix the link is a
nearly-complete surrogate for its target.
Of course, if there is a less-obvious but successful solution to the
problem I'd be happy to hear about it.
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