From: Bill Stewart <bstewart@iname.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: GetVersionEx() depreciated, what should be used instead for Windows 7/8/10?
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 08:03:09 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANV9t=S2BJ2d-_zNm3ZgVeerQ+ZEONQ4fjN1MXc6JVp+Gvrxsg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b47b7092-716a-c626-a14d-e5847bc86926@t-online.de>
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 4:21 AM Christian Franke wrote:
Cygwin uses the undocumented RtlGetNtVersionNumbers() from ntdll.dll
> because even RtlGetVersion() may not return the correct values. See
> function wincapc::init()
>
> https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=winsup/cygwin/wincap.cc
>
Can you please clarify the circumstances under which the RtlGetVersion
function "may not return the correct values"?
(I am not aware of any, hence the question.)
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-19 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-19 6:25 Cedric Blancher
2024-03-19 10:20 ` Christian Franke
2024-03-19 14:03 ` Bill Stewart [this message]
2024-03-19 15:00 ` Richard Campbell
2024-03-19 15:18 ` Bill Stewart
2024-03-19 16:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2024-03-19 16:32 ` Bill Stewart
2024-03-20 11:39 ` Christian Franke
2024-03-20 14:26 ` Bill Stewart
2024-03-20 19:06 ` Corinna Vinschen
2024-03-21 8:58 ` Christian Franke
2024-03-21 15:15 ` Corinna Vinschen
2024-03-22 22:13 ` Ray Satiro
2024-03-23 9:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
2024-03-23 9:57 ` Christian Franke
2024-03-23 21:04 ` Corinna Vinschen
2024-03-24 14:42 ` Christian Franke
2024-03-24 21:05 ` Corinna Vinschen
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