On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Hi Karel, Thank you for the additional work put to whereis(1) patch series. I agree. Additional --canonical option is right way to expose where files are. I will have a look of this sometime later the week(end). -- Sami Kerola http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
