Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 23:08:13 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to resolve a link? Message-ID: <20030723030813.GC4170@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3F1DE381.7010605@cox.net> <3F1DE381.7010605@cox.net> <5.2.1.1.2.20030722194744.03ac0e38@pop.sonic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20030722194744.03ac0e38@pop.sonic.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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 aaaspam@sourceware.org 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/