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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 10:55:22 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm AT cygwin DOT com>
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Cc: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: Path Seperator
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On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 07:32:01AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Yes, but a program that was built to use Win32 would have a ';' in it's 
>path, even if it is run under Cygwin.

If you are using normal 'gcc' (without the -mno-cygwin option) to build
your program, you can't reliably check the environment via any method to
determine if you are "running under cygwin" or not.  If you are using a
-mno-cygwin compiled program then you should never see colons in the
path.

You can't reliably use the PATH environment variable to determine
anything about how a program was started.

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>-- If you're going to remove all distribution components when
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>to the list, not that I'm in favor of it.  -- I would appreciate that
>the email distribution remain intact.  --
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