GetProcessGroupAffinity error with cygwin 3.1.0-1
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Dec 17 16:09:00 GMT 2019
On Dec 17 16:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi Rene,
>
> On Dec 17 16:01, cygwin@cygwin.roche.com wrote:
> > I upgraded to cygwin 3.1.0-1. This works fine on Windows 10. But on Windows Server 2008 this results in the following error message when starting any cygwin process:
> >
> > The procedure entry point GetProcessGroupAffinity could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll
> >
> > Is Windows Server 2008 not supported anymore?
>
> Windows Vista/Server 2008 is still supported, but nobody is actually
> testing on it. No surprise I hope, given the microscopic number of
> users on these systems.
>
> Windows Vista/Server 2008 is still supported, but only barely so.
> Official support for Vista ended a while ago, official support for
> Server 2008 with Service Pack 2 will end in less than a month,
> 2020-01-14 to be exact. I'm planning to draw a line in 2020
> which will end Cygwin support as well.
>
> Having said that, until 14th of January we're certainly supporting
> Vista/2008. We just failed to notice that the GetProcessGroupAffinity
> and GetThreadGroupAffinity functions are missing on Vista/2008.
>
> I'll upload a fixed Cygwin 3.1.1 release pretty soon.
I pushed a patch
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commitdiff;h=26cc7769b4b5
I also created a developer snapshot. Please test the latest Cygwin DLL
from https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
Thanks,
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
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