RE: programming API to determine whether in "Cygwin environment"

["Karr, David" <david dot karr at wamu dot net>]

The "ant" shell script checks to see if "`uname`" contains the string
"CYGWIN". 

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> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Tony Last
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:49 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: programming API to determine whether in "Cygwin environment"
> 
> 
> 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
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