checking cyg version (was Re: GNU make losing jobserver tokens)

[Mark Geisert]

L A Walsh wrote:
> On 2022/03/21 08:09, Ken Brown wrote:
>>
>> For starters, is your Cygwin installation up to date?  Cygwin's internal 
>> implementation of pipes was overhauled starting with cygwin-3.3.0.
> How does one check the version of cygwin?  I've updated cygwin files this year,
> but if I use cygcheck -V, I only see cygwin-3.2, which looks to be from last year.
> 
> Is that they right way to check the cygwin version?

uname -r

..or the catch-all when I can't remember the -r option:

uname -a

..mark