Eric Blake wrote:
If your setup is like mine, OS is an inherited environment variable, set by Windows before bash is even started. You can set it to whatever you like. Meanwhile, uname -s is not affected by the environment (you really don't want an environment variable changing the uname output). Hmm, maybe we should update /etc/profile to do OS=`uname -s`. Thoughts?
No, IMO leave it alone. We are on Windows and there are several flavours, I need to know if I'm on NT or Win98 and the few Windows environment settings are useful. FWIW, it is not defined on my Slackware box: $ ssh slackware -l root [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Last login: Thu Aug 11 19:43:51 2005 Linux 2.4.22. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# uname -s Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# echo $OS [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# echo $SHELL /bin/bash Gerrit -- =^..^= -- 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/
