On Thu, July 10, 2008 10:06 pm, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 08:49:06PM -0700, Tony Last wrote: >> My console program is built for native Windows (thus does not reply on >> cygwin1.dll). >> >> So I'm looking for a boolean method which will allow a program to tell >> whether it was run from within a Cygwin shell. > > A PATH containing colons which weren't preceded by just a single > alphabetic character would be a clue but it wouldn't be foolproof. A HOME > environment variable with no colons and forward slashes would be another > clue. I don't think there is a foolproof test, though.
Both HOME and PATH are translated by the time the non-cygwin program sees them, though?? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
