From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Kiên Nguyễn Quang" <kien.n.quang@gmail.com>
Cc: 57386@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57386: 29.0.50; support make-symbolic-link without admin priviledge on Windows
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 21:26:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wnax4hw5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL7sU5jA0ssv8PjsBXnGVm7Gd8n6S-DeqBGYfWcbL8TOQmxi8Q@mail.gmail.com> (message from Kiên Nguyễn Quang on Thu, 25 Aug 2022 03:05:37 +0900)
> From: Kiên Nguyễn Quang <kien.n.quang@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 03:05:37 +0900
> Cc: 57386@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> You're right, there's a stupid check against parameters on the version that doesn't support the new flag.
> Since from Windows 10, the Windows version checking is not recommended (and not accurate) anymore, I
> think we can just retry if the function is called with invalid parameters.
> That will probably slow down the down-level Windows versions, but the difference should not be too much.
Unfortunately, invalid parameters could cause Emacs to abort,
depending on how it was linked. So I still think checking the version
of Windows is the way to go. That MS don't recommend that doesn't
mean we must abide by their recommendations.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-24 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-24 15:33 bug#57386: 29.0.50; support make-symbolic-link without admin priviledge on Windows Kiên Nguyễn Quang
2022-08-24 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-24 18:05 ` Kiên Nguyễn Quang
2022-08-24 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-08-25 1:30 ` Kiên Nguyễn Quang
2022-08-25 5:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-25 8:52 ` Kiên Nguyễn Quang
2022-08-25 9:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-25 9:51 ` Kiên Nguyễn Quang
2022-08-25 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-25 10:32 ` Kiên Nguyễn Quang
2022-08-25 13:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-25 11:35 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-25 12:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
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