Re: FW: [CYGWIN] 7.2b3 postmaster doesn't start on Win98

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From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 9:52 PM

> mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> writes:
> > I'll write and test something with cygwin this week if that would help. (If
> > someone can get to it first it is something stupid like "GetWindowsVersion()"
> > or something like that.
>
> Well, the non-stupid part is to know which return values correspond to
> Windows versions that have proper file permissions and which values to
> versions that don't. Given that NT and the other versions are two
> separate code streams (no?), I'm not sure that distinguishing this is
> trivial, and even less sure that we should assume all future Windows
> releases will have it. I'd be more comfortable with an autoconf-like
> approach: actually probe the desired feature and see if it works.
>
> I was thinking this morning about trying to chmod the directory and,
> if that doesn't report an error, assuming that all is well. On Windows
> it'd presumably claim success despite not being able to do what is asked
> for. But this would definitely require testing.
>
> I'm really not happy about the idea of holding up the release for this...

Why so much fuss about an officially unsupported platform
at this point in time? Interested individuals can work on a more or less
workable W98 "port" for 7.3 right after the 7.2 release, no?
(They can actually work now, but why this should up the release?)