From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs master, security concernes, ms-windows Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 17:20:39 +0200 Message-ID: <87fubpxq60.fsf@qcore> References: <87k211xv4b.fsf@qcore> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505402510 13276 195.159.176.226 (14 Sep 2017 15:21:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:21:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 14 17:21:42 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dsVxW-0003I6-Hw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 17:21:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48380 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsVxd-0002yG-RI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:21:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41927) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsVwn-0002wd-W4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:20:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsVwl-0006Ty-CV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:20:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=36920 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsVwk-0006TC-U8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:20:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dsVwa-0001uY-Sf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 17:20:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:T85tnZZmtkIrqOaHNKLwJNbTarU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:218272 Archived-At: Fabrice Popineau writes: > At the moment, any libpng.dll (for example) on the PATH can be loaded by > emacs. > With this restriction, only the one provided with an emacs package will be. > > I came to 'fix' this because I am using the Anaconda Python distribution > which also > provides its own set of dlls. At some point I got a failure because their > dlls got loaded, > instead of the mingw64 ones. I suffered a similar problem on the past. The real concern about this patch is that it raises quite a bit the minimum supported OS version, which is a big no-no, AFAIK. Although I'm not sure what happens if you pass an unsupported flag to LoadLibraryEx. It is possible to implement your idea by using explicit paths.