From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygcheck -svc segfaults on Windows 8.1 with cygwin64
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131119190343.GG2936@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <528BAC3D.9070506@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
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On Nov 19 13:21, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 11/19/2013 12:13 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Why do they have to make such a mess out of a simple function like
> >GetVersionEx? It returns different OS version numbers based on the
> >existence of a manifest in the executable. How dense is that?
> >
> >So we have thousands of executables, none of them has a 8.1 manifest.
> >As a result, the uname() function returns OS versions 6.2 rather than
> >6.3. Aaaaaargh.
> >
> >In cygcheck I added a patch to check dwBuildNumber this morning. If
> >it's >= 9200, it's 8.1/2012R2, otherwise 8/2012. But that doesn't
> >fix the OS version number of course. Sigh.
> >
> >I'm going to tweak the OS version number and I'll do the same in
> >Cygwin's uname function as well.
>
> Good grief. I suppose I need to add something similar to
> /usr/lib/csih/winProductName.exe...
Looks like it, yes. What on earth were they thinking?
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-19 19:03 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 [this message]
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
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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