On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 01:18:06PM +1100, Ben Elliston wrote: > The which(1) man page says: "It does not follow symbolic links". However > `which' does in fact: > > $ ln -s /usr/bin link > $ export PATH=~/link:$PATH > $ which uptime > /home/bje/link/uptime > > In a modern Linux system, not following symbolic links would be rather > undesiarable > behaviour. I don't have a strong view on whether the behaviour as implemented > is correct, > but the man page is inconsistent. Perhaps the man page just needs correcting?
The root of this issue is https://bugs.debian.org/268624 and I think a man page clarification would be in order.
