Greetings, Warren Young! >> what is the standard way of detecting OS type? >> uname -o >> ?
> The wise try not to do that at all. > Instead, take in a little wisdom from the people who created autoconf, a > piece of software that's been uncommonly successful[*] by FOSS > standards: don't test for platforms, test for features. Well, then, following your wisdom, I have to clog every line of my script with "... || exit" or an equivalent. Because even an attempt to continue execution, if any error occured, would be disastrous to the calling program. Solution is to "set -e" and have script bail out at any problem, but if I try autoconf approach and blindly run whatever I feel appropriate, hoping for the best and preparing for worst, I won't have such option. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 04.04.2012, <12:57> 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
