Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/09/13/10:42:03
Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>>>Brilliant to see so much progress on this!
>>>Are you sure that "CYGWIN_9*)" correctly catches Windows ME?
>>
>>No, I'm not. I'm incorporating Warren Young's suggestion. Unless
>>someone
>>with ME can confirm that 'uname -s' returns CYGWIN_9*? Nicholas?
>
> Nope, it returns "CYGWIN_ME-4.90"
Okay, two possibilities now.
One is to add a special case for ME. It occurs to me that this is
somewhat brittle -- who's to say this won't break again when yet another
flavor of Windows comes out? (<rhetoric>Why, Microsoft, oh why, are
version numbers so offensive in thy sight?</rhetoric>)
The other is to go with my environment variable approach. I'm pretty
sure SYSTEMROOT is automatically defined on NT; it can be removed by a
determined user, of course. Can anyone make such a claim for WINDIR on
9x type systems? The variable exists on the Win98 box in my office.
I agree with the previous posts about letting people monkey-wrench the
system if they're determined to, for what that's worth. I think that
the protection of checking that the directory name we come up with
exists is sufficient protection -- if it exists, assume that it's the
correct directory. If it's not a directory, then we can safely assume
that something's hosed and refuse to make the symlinks.
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