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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:21:49 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
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Subject: Re: cygcheck -svc segfaults on Windows 8.1 with cygwin64
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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...

--
Chuck



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