Wed Dec 08 15:25:31 2010: Request 57172 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by JDB
Queue: Win32
Subject: Windows 2008 Server version detection by GetOSVersion()
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Owner: Nobody
Requestors: [email protected]
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57172 >
On Mon May 03 10:52:19 2010, https://launchpad.net/~michiel-beijen wrote:
> GetOSVersion() returns "Win7" when running on Windows 2008 R2.
>
> According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724833(VS.85).aspx
> they both return dwMajorVersion 6 and dwMinorVersion 1, the only
> difference is that for Win7 OSVERSIONINFOEX.wProductType =
> VER_NT_WORKSTATION and for Win2008SP1 OSVERSIONINFOEX.wProductType !=
> VER_NT_WORKSTATION
>
> I understand that adding this kind of 'smartness' into GetOSVersion is
> not desired, but I don't really see an alternative. Otherwise, I guess
> this should at least be added to the docs.
A fix has been committed to the repo in
https://code.google.com/p/libwin32/source/detail?r=516
