The following article has the most info I have found:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa905330.aspx
It includes:
Before a 32 bit process is created, the following attributes are
checked to determine whether it is an installer:
Filename includes keywords such as "install," "setup," and
"update."
and others (e.g. the GRASS project) have found that 'patch' is 'such
as'. Oddly, it does seem to check only 32-bit processes.
If you can't change the name, using a manifest file or including a
manifest as a resource will change the behaviour. Here is a
relevant MSDN page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756929.aspx
On Wed, 25 May 2011, JonY wrote:
> On 5/24/2011 23:54, Ozkan Sezer wrote:
>> Hi all:
>>
>> What makes the User Access Control thing of vista or w7 to trigger?
>> If I compile my program for x64 using mingw-w64, the program runs
>> just fine. If I compile it for x86 either by mingw or mingw-w64 and
>> run it on vista or w7 x64 version, windows intercepts it claiming that
>> it wants to "access my computer and may do evil things", and when I
>> choose 'allow' than it opens up a new console instead of using the
>> existing cmd.exe console. I don't have an x86 version of vista or
>> w7 installed on my boxes so I don't know the behavior there.
>> FWIW, code is here: http://uhexen2.sf.net/tmp/h2patch3-1.0.0.9.tar.gz
>> which is an application of xdelta3 (http://xdelta.org/) in progress
>> and nothing oh so fanciful.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> IIRC its based on executable file names and some other criteria which
> I'm not sure of.
>
> See the Cygwin patch.exe.manifest file, there might be clues there.
>
>
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