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From: Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: cygcheck -svc segfaults on Windows 8.1 with cygwin64
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:23:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <528BAC3D.9070506@cwilson.fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131119171330.GF2936@calimero.vinschen.de>

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...

--
Chuck



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  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-19 18:23 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 [this message]
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

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