Future ntsec-detection problem in sshd (Re: winsup/cygwin ChangeLog security.cc)
Christopher Faylor
cgf@redhat.com
Sun Jul 28 01:29:00 GMT 2002
On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 10:45:20AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 02:13, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> Breaking backwards compatibility gratuitously is not desirable.
>>
>> In this case however, this could be implemented as a "cygwin_internal" function
>> anyway, which would mean not having to worry about loading the function.
>>
>> However, checking the cygwin api version should be sufficient too. That's
>> what it is there for.
>
>What about a /proc entry?
It's already available via uname() and via /proc/version:
$ uname -r
1.3.13(0.55/3/2)
^^^^
$ cat /proc/version
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.13(0.55/3/2) 2002-07-26 15:57
^^^^
cgf
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