Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Crashes on Win98 and WinME fixed

[Lars Roland <lars.roland@xxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris schrieb:
> Lars Roland wrote:
>
> > Guy Harris schrieb:
> >
> > > Is WINDIR set on 95/98/Me?  
> >
> >
> > It is set on 98 and ME, I don't know, if it is set on Win95.
> > BTW, ADNS does *not* support Win95. Thus Ethereal doesn't support 
> > Win95 if built with ADNS, right?
>
>
> Presumably - and I think the Windows version from the installer is built 
> with ADNS, which would mean we don't support W95.
>
> What happens if you try to use ADNS on W95?  Crash?  Addresses don't get 
> resolved?
Unfortunately I don't have a Win95 system at hand right now. I just 
don't know what will happen.

(snip)

> > > In either case, should it try both %WINDIR%\hosts and 
> > > %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, to handle both 95/98/Me and 
> > > NT4/2K/XP/Server2K3, or should it base that on whether it's Windows 
> > > OT (95/98/Me) or NT (NT4/2K/XP/Server2K3)?
> >
> >
> > I guess it is better to try both on any Windows.
>
>
> That's what it's doing now - what's the advantage to that over calling 
> GetVersionEx() and basing it on the dwPlatformId value?
Well, it is more or less a question of taste. It is probably cleaner to 
distinguish between NT and OT.
I just think it isn't problematic to look at both locations, while it 
might be problematic to look at locations with fixed drive letters. 
("c:" isn't necessarily the system drive. I don't know if it is 
possible, but perhaps someone could have a windows running with drive c 
being invalid. Who knows? )

Regards,
Lars