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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:11:01 -0400
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On 8/14/2015 9:56 AM, Václav Haisman wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I am trying to find out Cygwin version at run time.
>
> I have noticed that there is `cygwin_internal (CW_GETVERSIONINFO)` API
> for this. However, it seems that the `cygwin_version_info` structure
> this call is supposed to fill in is not publicly available and is only
> declared internally in `winsup/cygwin/cygwin_version.h`.
>
> Am I right that my only option is either to copy the internal
> declaration of the structure or to use `/proc/version` and parse the
> version string out of that?

There's uname, whose options allow getting various parts of what
/proc/version gives you.  uname is also somewhat portable across
different flavors of linux ...

Eliot Moss

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