On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 10:21 AM Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 19 09:18, Bill Stewart via Cygwin wrote: > > > I'm not sure of the exact scenario that led to the "RtlGetVersion is > > subject to manifesting" conclusion, but I can't reproduce it. > > You have to create an application with an application manifest not > supporting your OS. > > For Cygwin apps, this occured when you built, say, an executable under > Windows 8.1 before Windows 10 support was added to the Cygwin toolchain: > the manifest linked to the Cygwin executable didn't yet contain a GUID > entry for Windows 10 support. > > In this case, RtlGetVersion returns an OS version 6.3 even when running > under the 10.0 kernel. This behaviour exists back 'til Windows Vista. > > Fortunately Microsoft didn't change the required manifest GUID entry > since the introduction of Windows 10. Even Windows 11 is still using > the same GUID. >
Interesting. Thanks for the clarification! Bill -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
