I did the Windows 8.1 Preview installation and faced with the same
problem as described in the article:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/windowsazure/zh-tw/c471de52-611f-435d-ab44-56064e5fd7d5/windows-81-preview-getversionex-reports-629200
To fix the problem, java executable modules need to upgrade the manifest.
That is in new fix version
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~uta/openjdk-webrevs/JDK-8020191/webrev.01/
The bug
https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8020191
contains the attachment with screen shot proof.
Regards,
-uta
On 7/31/2013 7:14 PM, Kurchi Subhra Hazra wrote:
Changes look good to me (once Alan's point is verified).
Thanks,
- Kurchi
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com
<mailto:alan.bate...@oracle.com>> wrote:
The changes in the webrev look okay to me but the reference to the
"app compatibility shim" in the MS article is a bit confusing and
not clear to me (with checking into it more) whether this might
consider java.exe as something that isn't targeted to Windows 8.1.
So can you verify that you have checked it on the latest 8.1 preview?
As regards the helper library then this could be useful in the
future (for now then it probably complicates things because the
JDK still has to run on older versions of Windows).
-Alan.
On 31/07/2013 05:53, Alexey Utkin wrote:
Bug description:
https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8020191
http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8020191
Here is the suggested fix:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~uta/openjdk-webrevs/JDK-8020191/webrev.00/
<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Euta/openjdk-webrevs/JDK-8020191/webrev.00/>
Summary:
We need to be consistent with the rest of OS, so I extend the
case for 6.3 internal version number by values "Windows 8.1"
for workstation OS, and "Windows Server 2012 R2" for server OS.
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn302074.aspx)
But we get a chance to have a wrong OS name due to MS
compatibility problems.
Here is the problem description:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/windowsazure/zh-tw/c471de52-611f-435d-ab44-56064e5fd7d5/windows-81-preview-getversionex-reports-629200
and MS respond:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn302074.aspx
Quotations:
"In Windows 8.1 Preview, we have introduced a new API,
Versionhelpers API, that deprecates the need for using
GetVersion(Ex) APIs. This addresses difficulties in
interpreting the numerical value returned by the
GetVersion(Ex) APIs."
"The internal version number for Windows 8.1 Preview and
Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview is 6.3. Only apps that are
targeting Windows 8.1 will receive a return value of 6.3.
Those apps that are not targeted for Windows 8.1 will receive
a return value of 6.2 unless previously shimmed as discussed
below."
Regards,
-uta
