Greetings, Eric Blake! >>> Is there a reason that something like the following wouldn't work? >> >>> if [ -f /bin/cygwin1.dll ] >> >> Hm. Turned out, this is more reliable check, than >> test "$OSTYPE" = "cygwin" && ... >> >> But, oh, so much for consistency... >> >> Question to Cygwin staff: shouldn't $OSTYPE be declared for Cygwin programs, >> even if they are not started from Cygwin shell? Is this at all possible?
> No, not possible - $OSTYPE is not standardized, so there's no point in > expecting cygwin to provide it (of course, you can export it in your > ~/.bashrc). Furthermore, even if cygwin exported it, the moment your > cygwin process starts a non-cygwin process, that process would also see > the same setting. That raises another question: what is the standard way of detecting OS type? uname -o ? -- WBR, Andrey Repin ([email protected]) 04.04.2012, <05:34> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
