From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
Subject: Re: How to detect OS type and version?
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:39:32 +0100
Date: 2005-10-13T10:40:39+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <434e3775_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20051013115001.60b6a695@pscube.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Stefan Bellon wrote:
> This approach has one problem: Those environment variables can be set
> by the user, so that the user can fake the setting to select wrong OS
> dependent code.
Absolutely! Though I'm not sure exactly that would acheive as presumably
they would have to fake everything else that followed! :-)
I think this is what "System.Name" was probably orginally intended to
provide but it never quite worked out that way...
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-13 2:35 How to detect OS type and version? Roger Blum
2005-10-13 6:05 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-13 9:50 ` Stefan Bellon
2005-10-13 10:39 ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2005-10-13 18:12 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-13 18:37 ` Stefan Bellon
2005-10-13 21:21 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-13 21:25 ` Stefan Bellon
2005-10-13 21:52 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-16 0:13 ` Ray Blaak
2005-10-16 0:29 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-16 4:48 ` Ray Blaak
2005-10-16 14:16 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-10-16 15:55 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-16 20:06 ` Pascal Obry
2005-10-18 16:58 ` Ray Blaak
2005-10-16 15:59 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-17 17:19 ` Ray Blaak
2005-10-13 18:11 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-13 19:44 ` Simon Wright
2005-10-13 21:04 ` Michael Bode
2005-10-14 1:33 ` Steve
2005-10-13 12:06 ` Rob Norris
2005-10-13 11:59 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-14 0:21 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-10-14 8:02 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-14 23:27 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-10-15 12:28 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-10-15 14:12 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-14 9:52 ` Rob Norris
2005-10-13 20:25 ` Bernd Specht
2005-10-13 20:36 ` Michael Bode
2005-10-13 20:41 ` Bernd Specht
2005-10-13 20:58 ` Stefan Bellon
2005-10-14 0:27 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-10-15 19:48 ` Bernd Specht
2005-10-14 6:30 ` Roger Blum
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