David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With c:\cygwin\bin in my PATH, if I open a CMD shell and invoke > > python > > I get some garbage characters on my console, and then it freezes. If > I instead do > > set USER=dave && python > > there are no garbage characters and no freeze, but also no python > process. > > Can anyone explain this?
Okay, I have my explanation (sorta): python is a symlink, and if I execute "python2.4" from CMD I don't have any problems. Now, I am writing a program that must use CMD to probe for python in the PATH and check its version. If I do the naive thing and just try to invoke "python," and there's a Cygwin installation, my program will crash or freeze. So the question is, what do I do instead? I can't think of anything that isn't prone to the same issues... okay, I suppose I could look for the .exe or .bat extension, and if it isn't found, assume I have a symlink. Is that the best I can do? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com -- 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/
