is_Cygwin: avoid `exec`ing anything
The `is_Cygwin` function is used, among other things, to determine how executables are discovered in the `PATH` list by the `_which` function. We are about to change the behavior of the `_which` function on Windows (but not Cygwin): On Windows, we want it to ignore empty elements of the `PATH` instead of treating them as referring to the current directory (which is a "legacy feature" according to https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html#tag_08_03, but apparently not explicitly deprecated, the POSIX documentation is quite unclear on that even if the Cygwin project itself considers it to be deprecated: https://github.com/cygwin/cygwin/commit/fc74dbf22f5c). This is important because on Windows, `exec` does something very unsafe by default (unless we're running a Cygwin version of Tcl, which follows Unix semantics). However, we try to `exec` something _inside_ `is_Cygwin` to determine whether we're running within Cygwin or not, i.e. before we determined whether we need to handle `PATH` specially or not. That's a Catch-22. Therefore, and because it is much cleaner anyway, use the `$::tcl_platform(os)` value which is guaranteed to start with `CYGWIN_` when running a Cygwin variant of Tcl/Tk, instead of executing `cygpath --windir`. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>maint
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							|  | @ -269,16 +269,8 @@ proc is_Windows {} { | |||
| proc is_Cygwin {} { | ||||
| 	global _iscygwin | ||||
| 	if {$_iscygwin eq {}} { | ||||
| 		if {$::tcl_platform(platform) eq {windows}} { | ||||
| 			if {[catch {set p [exec cygpath --windir]} err]} { | ||||
| 				set _iscygwin 0 | ||||
| 			} else { | ||||
| 				set _iscygwin 1 | ||||
| 				# Handle MSys2 which is only cygwin when MSYSTEM is MSYS. | ||||
| 				if {[info exists ::env(MSYSTEM)] && $::env(MSYSTEM) ne "MSYS"} { | ||||
| 					set _iscygwin 0 | ||||
| 				} | ||||
| 			} | ||||
| 		if {[string match "CYGWIN_*" $::tcl_platform(os)]} { | ||||
| 			set _iscygwin 1 | ||||
| 		} else { | ||||
| 			set _iscygwin 0 | ||||
| 		} | ||||
|  |  | |||
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