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.