Message-ID: <45387.97.113.116.104.1215754377.squirrel@webmail.efn.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080711050615.GA4181@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
References: <18395872.post@talk.nabble.com>     <20080711050615.GA4181@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:32:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: programming API to determine whether in 'Cygwin environment'
From: "Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes" <sthoenna@efn.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com

On Thu, July 10, 2008 10:06 pm, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 08:49:06PM -0700, Tony Last wrote:
>> My console program is built for native Windows (thus does not reply on
>> cygwin1.dll).
>>
>> So I'm looking for a boolean method which will allow a program to tell
>> whether it was run from within a Cygwin shell.
>
> A PATH containing colons which weren't preceded by just a single
> alphabetic character would be a clue but it wouldn't be foolproof.  A HOME
> environment variable with no colons and forward slashes would be another
> clue.  I don't think there is a foolproof test, though.

Both HOME and PATH are translated by the time the non-cygwin program
sees them, though??


--
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/