Dear List, I'm forwarding a new copy of a programmer's question I sent yesterday to Freedos-devel but for some reason apparently didn't reach to the list server - maybe stalled somewhere, or awaiting processing by the US NSA ?
Of course there is a risk that you guys will suffer receiving 2 or more copies, in advance of which I send my most sincere apology. --- On Thursday, 7.4.13, Bertho Grandpied <y31415926...@yahoo.fr> a wrote : > Objet: (Q) recommended way to reliably check for FreeDOS vs. AnyDOS ? > Programmers, Kernel people, hi ! > > What is (are) the recommended way(s) to assert > programmatically one is running under FreeDOS, versus other > common DOS brands and versions ? > Precisions : > - I am going for the simplest, yet reliable identification > method. The problem posed here is to /reliably/ single out > FreeDOS from foreign DOSes, NOT necessarily to get at > FreeDOS (sub)version numbers (real or faked!). > > - Method should work in any reasonably current versions of > FreeDOS - say 0.9, 1.0 and 1.1, whatever compilation > options, and also be future proof w/ respect to FreeDOS, if > possible. > > - Must be available at system initialisation time (callable > from a device driver's 'init' routine, that is). > > Requirement 1 - simplicity - suggests that we should use a > FreeDOS-kernel-specific API, if such exists. But reliability > of the detection is /primordial/, so, if reliabity means we > have to 'peek' into the kernel and 'walk' binary structures, > so be it. > > Of course we can't trust blandly the general documented DOS API > calls for "version" or even "true ver", can we ? I believe > true ver /should/ not lie but I also think (may be wrongly) > that FreeDOS truever /does/ lie in certain circumstances, > unfortunately. > > Obviously I could hack-and-design something by myself, > however I would much much preffer to do things in the > sanctionned way whenever possible. > > Thanks in advance. If this is documented well somewhere, a > pointer will do for an answer. > -- Czerno ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
