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RE: cygcheck -svc segfaults on Windows 8.1 with cygwin64
- From: Jim Garrison <jim dot garrison at nwea dot org>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 23:41:20 +0000
- Subject: RE: cygcheck -svc segfaults on Windows 8.1 with cygwin64
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> On Nov 19 14:20, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> > On 11/19/2013 2:03 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >Looks like it, yes. What on earth were they thinking?
> >
> > Who says they were thinking? ;-)
>
> Point.
>
> 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)