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Re: Some comment about Cygwin1.1.4
What about trying to execute "display-shell-version (C-x C-v)". If
we're in a bash shell, we'd get the verision info (works on both
bash1 and bash2) and I suppose that if we're on (a)sh we'd get nothing.
Cheers,
/ChJ
Bob McGowan wrote:
>
> DJ Delorie wrote:
> >
> > > echo $BASH_VERSION ?
> >
> > No, because if you run sh from bash, it may inherit that environment
> > variable.
>
> By default, it should not be exported, but a user could export it
> themselves.
>
> How about a double check of RANDOM? If it gets exported, the inherited
> value in (a)sh appears to be constant, while in bash it changes with
> each access. The only problem I can see with this is that a user could
> unset RANDOM, then make a new variable with that name, but which will
> not have the special feature. I would think that this is rare enough to
> maybe be ignored?
>
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> Bob McGowan
> Staff Software Quality Engineer
> VERITAS Software
> rmcgowan@veritas.com
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