On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 07:11:18AM +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2009.03.30 02:52:47 +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Magnus Bäck wrote: > > > On Friday, March 27, 2009 at 03:25 CET, > > > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Magnus Bäck wrote: > > > > > I'd be very surprised if ZwQueryDirectoryFile() hasn't always been > > > > > around (I just verified ntdll.dll from NT 4.0), so that's not a > > > > > worry. Don't know why MSDN reports it as introduced in XP. > > > > > > > > As the current maintainer of msysGit, I refuse to have something in > > > > the installer I ship that relies on not-at-all guaranteed interfaces. > > > > > > Although I do appreciate the importance of guaranteed interfaces, > > > I am also pragmatic. An incompatible change in ntdll.dll would break > > > vast amounts of programs, including cygwin. There is a lot to be said > > > about Microsoft and their APIs, but I don't think they have a habit of > > > changing ABIs or function semantics for userland libraries that have > > > been around for 15 years. > > > > Had you pointed to some document that states that the function has been in > > all NT-based versions, that would have done the trick. > > Not official documentation, but at least from some MS guy it seems: > http://www.osronline.com/showThread.cfm?link=73086 (last message). > > Apparently, it was in NT3.x, but they document only what's actually > defined in the header. How about runtime checking? You could do GetProcAddress(...) and if you don't get it use the old behaviour. I mean if it really is faster why not let Users of recent systems benefit from it. cheers Heiko -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
