On 04/03/2012 06:47 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]! > >> 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. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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