From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygcheck -svc segfaults on Windows 8.1 with cygwin64
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 10:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131120100303.GM2936@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <528BEF61.7050402@etr-usa.com>
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On Nov 19 16:08, Warren Young wrote:
> On 11/19/2013 10:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> >Why do they have to make such a mess out of a simple function like
> >GetVersionEx?
>
> Backwards compatibility at all costs?
Right. I'm just glad the native API is more reliable.
> >How dense is that?
>
> Manifest Density.
>
> (American joke.)
...which I don't get. Care to explain on cygwin-talk?
Corinna
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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
2013-11-20 8:59 ` Csaba Raduly
2013-11-19 23:08 ` Warren Young
2013-11-20 10:04 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
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