From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: jpw@shootybangbang.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `eshell-under-cygwin-p' etc. inappropriate?
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 16:49:49 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9743-Sun11Aug2002164949+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020808.102316.91281422.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> (message from Tak Ota on Thu, 08 Aug 2002 10:23:16 -0700 (PDT))
> From: Tak Ota <Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com>
> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 10:23:16 -0700 (PDT)
>
> 07 Aug 2002 06:06:12 +0100: John Paul Wallington <jpw@shootybangbang.com> wrote:
>
> > Maybe `eshell-under-cygwin-p' should be called something else?
>
> I use the following function for my own use.
>
> (defun cygwin-exists-p ()
> "Search cygwin1.dll in the exec-path and return the full path if it exists or nil otherwise."
> (catch 'exists
> (let ((path-list exec-path))
> (while path-list
> (let ((full-path (expand-file-name "cygwin1.dll" (car path-list))))
> (if (file-exists-p full-path)
> (throw 'exists full-path))
> (setq path-list (cdr path-list)))))))
I think this might be dangerous: a user could have some Cygwin tools
installed, but she could still be using a natively-co9mpiled Emacs.
In other words, the mere fact of cygwin.dll's existence does not
necessarily mean that this Emacs is a Cygwin binary.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-11 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-06 9:24 `eshell-under-cygwin-p' etc. inappropriate? John Paul Wallington
2002-08-06 20:28 ` John Wiegley
2002-08-07 5:06 ` John Paul Wallington
2002-08-07 5:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-07 5:23 ` John Wiegley
2002-08-07 5:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-07 6:10 ` John Paul Wallington
2002-08-07 20:32 ` John Wiegley
2002-08-07 21:53 ` John Paul Wallington
2002-08-08 4:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-10 0:44 ` John Wiegley
2002-08-08 17:23 ` Tak Ota
2002-08-11 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-08-12 18:19 ` Tak Ota
2002-08-13 9:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-10 0:05 ` John Paul Wallington
2002-08-10 0:06 ` John Wiegley
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