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Date:	Tue, 22 Jul 2003 21:23:13 -0400
From:	"David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT cox DOT net>
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To:	Cygwin Discussion <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	How to resolve a link?

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?
What would happen on *nix?

-- 
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim; R. M. French, tr.
Life is too short to tolerate crappy software.
.



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