My console program is built for native Windows (thus does not reply on cygwin1.dll). However, people may want to use it in a Cygwin environment and if they do I want it to behave in a suitably "Unixy" way. The obvious example is that when it prints out a pathname (which happens a lot) a Cygwin user would prefer to see it in Cygwin style, including forward slashes.
So I'm looking for a boolean method which will allow a program to tell whether it was run from within a Cygwin shell. An environment variable would be fine as long as it's standard. In fact I see a number of env vars which would enable an educated guess but am wondering if there's a defined standard and safe way. TIA -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/programming-API-to-determine-whether-in-%22Cygwin-environment%22-tp18395872p18395872.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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/
