From: Corinna Vinschen > > Just for your information: This change from WOW64 to WOW in the uname > sysname output was forced on us to account for the excessive version bump in > Windows 10. > > Rather than bumping the kernel version to 6.4, which would have been the right > thing to do, the marketing guys at Microsoft had the brilliant idea that the > kernel > version should finally be the same version as the marketing name of the OS. > And > since they were wailing so much, the developers caved in and made the bump. > > So now we would have the sysname > > CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW64 > > which has 20 characters, plus a trailing \0. The sysname char array has a > length > of 20 characters, which is hard to change if we want to maintain backward > compatibility with existing tools like uname. > > Therefore I shortened "WOW64" to "WOW". I would have loved to change > "CYGWIN_NT" to "CYGWIN" instead, but there are more scripts out in the wild > explicitely testing for this, than testing for "WOW64". I didn't even know > one of > our own scripts is checking that.
How about a change to something like CYGWIN_NT-W32-10.0 and CYGWIN_NT-W64-10.0 instead? -- cyg Simple -- 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
