On Mar 8 23:54, Brian Dessent wrote: > Charles Wilson wrote: > > > note that Vista and Server 2008 both report "CYGWIN_NT-6.0", so I don't > > really have a good way of distinguishing between them. > > FWIW, Microsoft says the way to determine 2k8 from Vista is by checking > if wProductType contains VER_NT_WORKSTATION: > <http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724833.aspx>. Cygwin > already does this internally for wincap and so wincap.is_server () > should be true for 2k8, but I don't think this is accessible by any > public uname-like interface. > > cygcheck also does this for the "-s" output, so grepping that would also > be an option to distinguish 2k8 if it's really necessary, although > cygcheck -s is very slow as it has to search a bunch of path stuff so I > don't think that's all that useful.
cygcheck only recognizes 2008 in CVS HEAD. The 1.5.25 version only recognizes Vista/Longhorn by the major version number. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
