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On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 4:21 AM Christian Franke wrote:

Cygwin uses the undocumented RtlGetNtVersionNumbers() from ntdll.dll
> because even RtlGetVersion() may not return the correct values. See
> function wincapc::init()
>
> https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=winsup/cygwin/wincap.cc
>

Can you please clarify the circumstances under which the RtlGetVersion
function "may not return the correct values"?

(I am not aware of any, hence the question.)

Bill

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