Re: GetProcessGroupAffinity error not supported under WS2008 (was: with cygwin 3.1.0-1)

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Dec 17 08:53, Brian Inglis wrote:
> 
> On 2019-12-17 08:01, 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?
> 
> Minimum supported server: Windows Server 2008 *R2* [desktop apps only]; for:
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/win32/api/winnt/ns-winnt-group_affinity
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processtopologyapi/
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processtopologyapi/nf-processtopologyapi-getprocessgroupaffinity
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processtopologyapi/nf-processtopologyapi-getthreadgroupaffinity
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processtopologyapi/nf-processtopologyapi-setthreadgroupaffinity

I don't quite get the relevance of this list.  We use lots of functions
in Cygein only available in later Windows versions.  Cygwin failed to
load these functions dynamically rather than having them linked in
statically, that's all.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer

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