Subject: Re: Beginnings of a patch: /etc/hosts
From: Robert Collins <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Paul Johnston <[email-masked]>
Date: 12 Sep 2002 09:15:49 +1000

On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 08:57, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Paul Johnston wrote:
> 
> > > No, I'm not.  I'm incorporating Warren Young's suggestion.  Unless someone
> > > with ME can confirm that 'uname -s' returns CYGWIN_9*?  Nicholas?
> >
> > To me that's a step backwards - uname -s or $OS are the correct ways to
> > detect the operating system. Warren's approach would be fooled if a user
> > defined $SYSTEMROOT on Win 9x.
> 
> Win 9x does not set $OS...  At least my Win 98 machine at home doesn't.
> Besides, the user can always set $OS to fool the script,

Rule #1: The user knows better than the tool. If the user wants to fool
the script, they can, even with uname. If a user is doing that, assume
they have a reason and let them do it with grace.

Rob