On Jul 10 22:32, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > 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??
$TERM would be set. That's very unlikely when started from cmd. $SHELL would be a hint, too. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/