On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:40:18PM +0000, Sami Kerola wrote:
> The whereis gives promise to find files so it seems to be more correct
> print symlink destinations than locations of symlinks.
Not sure. I think it's correct to canonicalize directory paths (to
avoid problems like /bin -> /usr/bin symlinks), but I don't see
a reason to canonicalize whole paths (filenames).
For example
$ whereis -b bzcat
bzcat: /usr/bin/bzcat
is expected answer, but
$ whereis -b bzcat
bzcat: /usr/bin/bzip2
looks strange. The another story is that many things are redirected
by symlinks to /etc/alternatives and then to pretty specific places.
Maybe we can add an option to canonicalize, but from my point of view
it should not be enabled by default.
I have applied patch to canonicalize directory names.
Karel
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