Steve Lhomme wrote: > It may be outdated code, the value is never 2. The value is currently never 2, correct. But you can see from the patch that introduced this code [1] that the reason why it's not enabled is that it requires -D_WIN32_WINNT=_WIN32_WINNT_WIN8 or higher. Obviously at a moment when many people still ran Windows 7, I did not want to enable it.
Bruno [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2017-05/msg00106.html