Barb, Duane wrote: > So when I do a "file `which ipfstat`" and it returns this: > > /usr/sbin/ipfstat: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, > dynamically linked, stripped > > Shouldn't isaexec redirect this and provide the appropriate output for > the 64 bit version installed in /usr/sbin/sparcv9 ? I did see that 64 > bit version of all the userland tools were in that directory. Or is it > because the file utility itself is 32 bit that isaexec is grabbing the > 32 bit binary?
Command "file" just _reads_ its argument files and determines their type (here, /usr/sbin/ipfstat, physically identical with /usr/lib/isaexec, which itself is a 32-bit binary). It does not _execute_ the files.
