From: Jim Garrison <jim.garrison@nwea.org>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: cygcheck -svc segfaults on Windows 8.1 with cygwin64
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 23:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0C723FEB5B4E5642B25B451BA57E273041FDF178@S1P5DAG3C.EXCHPROD.USA.NET> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131119202958.GH2936@calimero.vinschen.de>
> On Nov 19 14:20, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> > On 11/19/2013 2:03 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >Looks like it, yes. What on earth were they thinking?
> >
> > Who says they were thinking? ;-)
>
> Point.
>
> I found what happened:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
> us/library/windows/desktop/dn302074%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
Hmm... from the quoted link:
We have made some significant changes in how the GetVersion(Ex) APIs
work in Windows 8.1 due to undesirable customer behaviors resulting from how
the GetVersion(Ex) APIs have been used in the past.
Pesky customers won't behave the way we want them to... (sinister music)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-19 23:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-19 5:35 Gabriel Marcano
2013-11-19 10:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-11-19 16:38 ` Warren Young
2013-11-19 17:13 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-11-19 18:23 ` Charles Wilson
2013-11-19 19:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-11-19 19:21 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2013-11-19 20:30 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-11-19 20:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-11-19 21:06 ` Andrey Repin
2013-11-19 21:51 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-11-19 22:34 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-11-19 23:41 ` Jim Garrison [this message]
2013-11-20 8:59 ` Csaba Raduly
2013-11-19 23:08 ` Warren Young
2013-11-20 10:04 ` Corinna Vinschen
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