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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] 
> Sent: 04 December 2001 02:53
> To: mlw
> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
> Subject: Re: FW: [CYGWIN] 7.2b3 postmaster doesn't start on Win98 
> 
> 
> mlw <markw@mohawksoft.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.

It does (at least on my systems).

/Dave