Review request for 6843003: Windows Server 2008 R2 system recognition

[Xueming Shen]

Yes, I'm OK to push asis.

Alan Bateman wrote:
> Xueming Shen wrote:
>> :
>>
>> The fix itself looks OK.
>>
>> 2 random thoughts
>>
>> (1)I see lots of
>> sprops.os_name = "Windows NT (unknown)";
>>
>> It might be better to simply initialize the sprops.os_name  to 
>> "Windows NT (unknown)" at
>> the very beginning of the nt block and then depends on the version 
>> number to see if we have
>> a better guess.
>>
>> (2)We have been doing the same exercise every time MS released a new 
>> os, it might be the
>> time to extract this out to a "configurable" file and simple do a 
>> lookup based on the platform,
>> verMajor, verMinor.
> It is true that we need to touch this code whenever a new edition of 
> Windows comes along. As it runs at startup I would be hesitant to 
> introduce a lookup file. I agree that the paths in the decision tree 
> leading to unknown aren't prettry and this could be better. 
> Unfortunately I don't have cycles for it just now (changing this code 
> is trivial, but verifying it on each edition is tedious). So are you 
> okay if this is pushed as is?
>
> -Alan.