Re: Simplify Win32 Signaling code

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> A quick-check (haven't checked any details) - your
> >unconditional use of
> >> Global\ will not work on NT4. With 8.0 we said we wanted to
> >support NT4
> >> with some limits (IIRC, tablespaces don't work, and the intaller
> >> definitly doesn't work). If we want to continue doing that (which I
> >> think we do), the global\ has to be conditional - used on 2000+, not
> >> used on <= NT4.
> >
> >How should he make this change? Test OS version or use a different
> >feature?
>
> Test the OS version. The other feature that can be used is named pipes,
> and that's what we have today ;-) All other kernel objects that we could
> use all use the namespaces in the new format, but not back on NT4

Do we have any place now were we test the Win32 version, that he could
use as an example, or is this configure.in stuff?

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