From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: GetVersionEx() depreciated, what should be used instead for Windows 7/8/10?
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 22:04:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zf9D8b8lqoSYDLtH@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38b3f5df-ea63-8eb4-f0f9-4057c0eeae90@t-online.de>
On Mar 23 10:57, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
> On Mar 21 16:15, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Mar 21 09:58, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > > ..
> > I just gave it a try on W11. The results are even more funny than I
> > anticipated:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > So, yeah, with your observations especially on older W10 versions and
> > with 8.1 doing the same thing, I guess we can safely drop the extra call
> > to RtlGetNtVersionNumbers now.
>
> Or:
> Keep RtlGetVersionNumbers, compare result with RtlGetVersion and emit debug
> output if both differ. This would allow to diagnose a possible future
> reappearance of the issue.
Good idea! Do you want to create a patch?
Thanks,
Corinna
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-23 21:04 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
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 [this message]
2024-03-24 14:42 ` Christian Franke
2024-03-24 21:05 ` Corinna Vinschen
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