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Greetings, Eric Blake!

>>> 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.

That raises another question: what is the standard way of detecting OS type?
uname -o
?


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 04.04.2012, <05:34>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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