From: Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Paul Johnston <paj@pajhome.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Beginnings of a patch: /etc/hosts
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1031786149.22457.114.camel@lifelesswks> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0209111845010.1269-300000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
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On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 08:57, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Paul Johnston wrote:
>
> > > No, I'm not. I'm incorporating Warren Young's suggestion. Unless someone
> > > with ME can confirm that 'uname -s' returns CYGWIN_9*? Nicholas?
> >
> > To me that's a step backwards - uname -s or $OS are the correct ways to
> > detect the operating system. Warren's approach would be fooled if a user
> > defined $SYSTEMROOT on Win 9x.
>
> Win 9x does not set $OS... At least my Win 98 machine at home doesn't.
> Besides, the user can always set $OS to fool the script,
Rule #1: The user knows better than the tool. If the user wants to fool
the script, they can, even with uname. If a user is doing that, assume
they have a reason and let them do it with grace.
Rob
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-11 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-09 2:45 Suggestion: /etc/hosts Paul Johnston
2002-09-09 5:38 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-09-09 5:40 ` Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago
2002-09-09 6:51 ` Joe Buehler
2002-09-09 7:32 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-09-10 2:19 ` Paul Johnston
2002-09-11 7:43 ` Jim
2002-09-09 11:25 ` news
[not found] ` <E17oTbC-0001AV-00@quimby.gnus.org>
2002-09-10 9:52 ` Shankar Unni
2002-09-10 11:46 ` Beginnings of a patch: /etc/hosts Paul Johnston
2002-09-10 13:36 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2002-09-11 0:59 ` John Morrison
2002-09-11 2:06 ` Corinna Vinschen
2002-09-11 9:57 ` Joe Buehler
2002-09-11 11:17 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2002-09-11 11:42 ` Joe Buehler
2002-09-11 12:39 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2002-09-11 14:24 ` Paul Johnston
2002-09-11 14:53 ` Warren Young
2002-09-11 15:37 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2002-09-11 15:40 ` Paul Johnston
2002-09-11 16:15 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2002-09-11 16:35 ` Robert Collins [this message]
2002-09-11 17:10 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-09-11 17:26 ` OT " Igor Pechtchanski
2002-09-12 4:33 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-09-12 4:46 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-09-11 19:00 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-09-12 8:56 ` Joe Buehler
2002-09-11 23:25 ` Robert Collins
2002-09-12 4:11 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-09-11 17:14 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2002-09-12 1:27 ` Robert Collins
2002-09-11 17:54 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2002-09-12 4:08 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-09-12 10:08 ` Warren Young
2002-09-12 10:11 ` Warren Young
2002-09-10 13:54 ` Suggestion: /etc/hosts Warren Young
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