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Re: cygcheck -svc segfaults on Windows 8.1 with cygwin64
- From: Csaba Raduly <rcsaba at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin list <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:59:16 +0100
- Subject: Re: cygcheck -svc segfaults on Windows 8.1 with cygwin64
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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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