X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <47AB31C7.3040909@cyconix.com> Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:28:55 +0000 From: Paul Leder User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Incomplete environ when running MinGW apps? References: <5E25AF06EFB9EA4A87C19BC98F5C87531641A1@core-email.int.ascribe.com> In-Reply-To: <5E25AF06EFB9EA4A87C19BC98F5C87531641A1@core-email.int.ascribe.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Phil Betts wrote: > Just export the variables you want. That's the whole point of the > export command. They're not my variables. I've written an app which runs on Linux and "Windows". Most of the time on "Windows", it's probably going to be running on Cygwin/bash. However, there's always going to be someone who runs it in a DOS box. So, my problem is, how do I find out if they've got a sane shell or not? I can't ask them to export SHELL; I might as well just ask them to provide a command-line arg to tell me what their shell is anyway. I need some automatic way to do it. Thanks -Paul -- 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/