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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