How to resolve a link?

Christopher Faylor cgf-idd@cygwin.com
Wed Jul 23 02:54:00 GMT 2003


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.
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