On 2018-11-30 05:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 30 07:43, James E. King III wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 7:23 AM Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Nov 29 17:38, James E. King III wrote: >>>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:18 AM Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>>> I created a patch and uploaded new developer snapshots to >>>>> https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please give them a try. >>>> This fixed the issue for me. What's the best way to detect cygwin >>>> with this support? >>> This will show up in version 2.12.0(*) so checking the release field >>> from uname(2) should do the trick. >> Is there a programmatic way to check this without having to parse a >> bunch of char[20] from utsname.h? > How would you do this on Linux?
Same: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46280456/check-kernel-version-at-runtime-in-c - read /proc/version which is generated from utsname fields (or vice versa) using e.g fscanf $ head /proc/version CYGWIN_NT-10.0 version 2.11.2(0.329/5/3) (cori...@calimero.vinschen.de) (gcc version 7.3.0 20180125 (Fedora Cygwin 7.3.0-2) (GCC) ) 2018-11-08 14:34 - read (or source) /{etc,usr/lib}/os-release VERSION_ID line (or variable): $ head /{etc,usr/lib}/os-release ==> /etc/os-release <== PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="9" VERSION="9 (stretch)" ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"; SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"; BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"; ==> /usr/lib/os-release <== ... [same] Could also be supported under Cygwin: $ cyg-os-release.sh | tee /usr/lib/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Cygwin 64 2.11.2 2018-11-08" NAME=Cygwin ID=cygwin ID_LIKE=msys mingw VARIANT="64" VARIANT_ID="x86_64" VERSION="2.11.2 (0.329/5/3) 2018-11-08 14:34" VERSION_ID="2.11.2" BUILD_ID="0.329/5/3 2018-11-08 14:34" CPE_NAME="cpe:/a:cygwin:cygwin:2.11.2::~~~~x64~Windows%3e%3d6.0" HOME_URL="https://cygwin.com/"; SUPPORT_URL="https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/"; BUG_REPORT_URL="https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/"; $ (cd /etc; ln -fsv ../usr/lib/os-release .) './os-release' -> '../usr/lib/os-release' -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
