From: Morrison, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
What would you change it to? /bin/sh is the standard unix shell.
95% of unix versions don't have /bin/bash
The problem is that $OSTYPE is only defined in bash, so in theory the script itself requires bash. However, since $OSTYPE is only used in determining the presence of cygwin, the script only requires bash on cygwin.
Clearly what is needed is a better test for cygwin, one that is sh (or, in cygwin's case, ash) compatible. What that test might be, though, I don't know. Testing an environmental variable that is set by Windows, such as COMSPEC? Looking for "cygwin.bat" or "cygwin.ico" in root? Either solution is a gross hack that is bound to result in false positives eventually.
Does anyone know whether the members of the cygwin mailing list have any advice on the preferred method for detecting that you are running in cygwin from within their /bin/sh?
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