Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/07/22/22:38:56
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:23:13PM -0400, David A. Cobb wrote:
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>>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?
>>
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>No.
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>>What would happen on *nix?
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>The same thing as on cygwin.
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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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