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Subject:	Re: cygcheck -svc segfaults on Windows 8.1 with cygwin64
From:	Csaba Raduly <rcsaba AT gmail DOT com>
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Jim Garrison  wrote:
(snip)
>> On Nov 19 14:20, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>
>> I found what happened:
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
>> us/library/windows/desktop/dn302074%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
>
> Hmm... from the quoted link:
>
>     We have made some significant changes in how the GetVersion(Ex) APIs
>     work in Windows 8.1 due to undesirable customer behaviors resulting from how
>     the GetVersion(Ex) APIs have been used in the past.
>
> Pesky customers won't behave the way we want them to...  (sinister music)

This is why we can't have nice things.

Sounds like a case of throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Csaba
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