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Date:	Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:20:58 -0500
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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? ;-)

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