From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30386 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2013 19:21:22 -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 30376 invoked by uid 89); 19 Nov 2013 19:21:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: vms173013pub.verizon.net Received: from Unknown (HELO vms173013pub.verizon.net) (206.46.173.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:21:21 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.231] ([unknown] [74.104.179.122]) by vms173013.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0MWI00A37Z2X7G60@vms173013.mailsrvcs.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:21:02 -0600 (CST) Message-id: <528BBA1A.2080209@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:21:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygcheck -svc segfaults on Windows 8.1 with cygwin64 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> In-reply-to: <20131119190343.GG2936@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-11/txt/msg00346.txt.bz2 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 >= 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? Who says they were thinking? ;-) -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple