GetVersionEx() depreciated, what should be used instead for Windows 7/8/10?

[Christian Franke]

On Mar 21 16:15, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Mar 21 09:58, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
>>>> ..
> I just gave it a try on W11. The results are even more funny than I
> anticipated:
>
> ...
>
> So, yeah, with your observations especially on older W10 versions and
> with 8.1 doing the same thing, I guess we can safely drop the extra call
> to RtlGetNtVersionNumbers now.

Or:
Keep RtlGetVersionNumbers, compare result with RtlGetVersion and emit 
debug output if both differ. This would allow to diagnose a possible 
future reappearance of the issue.


>    After such a long time, I don't know
> on which version of Windows we observed the problem.

Some developer preview?

Meantime I also tested with Win10 1607, 1703, 1709, 1803 VM snapshots 
with same result.

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Regards,
Christian