From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17790 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2013 20:36:46 -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 17777 invoked by uid 89); 19 Nov 2013 20:36:45 -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 20:36:45 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id B67CA1A0C5D; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 21:36:36 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 20:36:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygcheck -svc segfaults on Windows 8.1 with cygwin64 Message-ID: <20131119203636.GI2936@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> <20131119190343.GG2936@calimero.vinschen.de> <528BBA1A.2080209@cygwin.com> <20131119202958.GH2936@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0XhtP95kHFp3KGBe" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131119202958.GH2936@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2013-11/txt/msg00348.txt.bz2 --0XhtP95kHFp3KGBe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 2097 On Nov 19 21:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 19 14:20, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > On 11/19/2013 2:03 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >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. > > >> > > >>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? > >=20 > > Who says they were thinking? ;-) >=20 > Point. >=20 > I found what happened: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn302074%28v=3Dvs= .85%29.aspx >=20 > Given that we are unable to provide and change manifests on the fly for > thousands of executables, we will have to hack our way along in future > because all upcoming versions of Windows will return a wrong OS version > number. >=20 > Why isn't there at least an additional non-manifest way to claim > compatibility with the current OS? :( Oh, and it's worse than I thought. dwBuildNumber 9200 is the Windows 8 build number, so my workaround doesn't work and the entire version information will be stuck at Windows 8 for the forseeable future, unless somebody knows a workaround for this manifest mess. Corinna --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --0XhtP95kHFp3KGBe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-length: 836 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSi8vUAAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+gq7kP/3B7vhwKh7DDNVKtKnW1LvX/ sOs5Kfl0+QMpW1+FI2/r1KIPSxNkFWPd3H7v/mIuQsvibJ3U40JwSng/zGSu27VN UUvOeIAb+ONiwDW7zEAoRWz/TP1lDDbPY5MosWDX+2jRgUHFngM4cKV35Q64M9Uf 7NXWtzxg9m6LMlBlZGsVQ1eHYo5d8Fe63kRzHDUk4qVcIoP9XAGsWpTqTmioPDMz /dcj2q8QwUNeEFqK16Bx+z8rdobQxajuYhY59O5wKQUXDuhWtVwNWnmNFr77OIHR HhaxVpkbqI9FJgW8ToYJwndmgAjqMJoho0rR8NB3EJ3bGLa9KMObq6gFmjg1JbdN 7tEaNRi7nTTvAUpyMUFEsKaLa3iOeV/TKC8ENnG0HHwEJlStLP2VlAyHhHiKP77Q lxpqTbBfKCtjM/PIhuzDPdfi/MZ/Cek6SRFil8TVAmLQaOnkRogsJ3DRFA5g6mqZ PeXEZlmke2iJx5Lw5f3LpU4x/w+nwHulJyDLtevNbEsiPbxwkuge/8bJlrQl1n4g 9RpWLqmesKUCptH5jm3AEqX9UWFl8B1MhPF890bqc++jok+1ldMjAmaKfBDdXUJ+ KUp6ORmdOqNyLFB+Cr4HoWP2LoLZSXklMG/qdme714HZ9zYV8KuKuSO7S0i7iP6y j+7NpuYLzPN/5/PC8nXK =Rsyw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0XhtP95kHFp3KGBe--