From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15371 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2013 19:03:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 15349 invoked by uid 89); 19 Nov 2013 19:03:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: calimero.vinschen.de Received: from Unknown (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:03:51 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 2E5B21A0C5D; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 20:03:43 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:03:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygcheck -svc segfaults on Windows 8.1 with cygwin64 Message-ID: <20131119190343.GG2936@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1384839303.14356.YahooMailNeo@web125203.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <20131119100343.GA27525@calimero.vinschen.de> <528B93E6.3030802@etr-usa.com> <20131119171330.GF2936@calimero.vinschen.de> <528BAC3D.9070506@cwilson.fastmail.fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yRA+Bmk8aPhU85Qt" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <528BAC3D.9070506@cwilson.fastmail.fm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2013-11/txt/msg00345.txt.bz2 --yRA+Bmk8aPhU85Qt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1084 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 >=3D 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. >=20 > 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 --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --yRA+Bmk8aPhU85Qt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-length: 836 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSi7YPAAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+giQQP/R7n0rXlgxChW5rgKOIuYtLZ WlK0l2IeHCkC7C6XsgT/JhhZ7YaOE8HIRK0j22ftiN85A0s5q2yXA2hsfSBGovrx bU/Gg1ilxO63tvkVthv2viTIa/GbciVp9gzz81Tyrazc5ZDC3H3w6EjipmQL+STv UbdP1yAuDlwzBVcXPOywPum+DHbFmS8fuRiKACHD9916TWMKG3Df//2OCT/MvwHq AaZe4iBR+dQcroPjdKdxgUjIOl9vsnjMlZp/8SVPNY8dOVUFsMg5tFGrE1xcln/n ZxeSrJlt+zxbBhPp8zRGdLTBrNMdvNcNGSpjzXgdIiZD7wZGM9Olyh6BjhzYUrKP lYvSWem6Pp/A4GXLe+T/SOAVZQJQ3TdfJqvHS1xws6+KvCZDwXNm2CiEcsqB0kMp EHzUFIDnGEvkgnOs7imhCRlgruo/fRb9tSpylK980A9BXVk6fXZj9+gRozuXZT4i HxxJpsnD/Rl+X1H+EO4L8KSeOJ+8dFKcQh9WCY8vMhnjnx26qY04x3/+Fx+fsLn0 IuE3eCXcXK0Yxt6GHxXyHQcIrQBMBwLvj8vGBSz3ZxfZSp9//3IH3Xw6QuUeGjZY f+rYD842ylu2nfZsy5ciBbwYti1TZ2LYJVFShRxZRIr4nKjogDhekM/qOMNGhTWb WLSYSvgRdUo+W5DARl9p =Nde/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yRA+Bmk8aPhU85Qt--