From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lewis Perin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Windows Emacs and "VirtualStore" Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:24:41 -0400 Organization: Software Prostheses Message-ID: References: <87hbncaru8.fsf@fh-trier.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273062169 17694 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2010 12:22:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 12:22:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 14:22:48 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9dck-0004rv-Q2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 14:22:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47978 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9dci-000092-Tk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 08:22:44 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1271712281 883 166.84.1.2 (19 Apr 2010 21:24:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:24:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9QwIkWiGYedvO5gh0cclZbeT6OE= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177791 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 04 May 2010 16:55:14 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73417 Archived-At: Andreas Politz writes: > Lewis Perin writes: > >> [...] is that the problem of the silent redirection of writes would go away >> if Windows Emacs had an appropriate "manifest file" with a Requested >> Execution Level of "asInvoker". > > This made me laugh. I'm glad someone is pleased. > I think there are more people on the dev-list, who are able to comment > on this. Thanks for the suggestion. I did post there Saturday morning. While I haven't had a response yet, I've solved part of the problem myself, as I reported to the dev-list just now. The gist is, Windows Emacs already has a manifest in the executable as a resource; this manifest resource can be pretty easily augmented to tell Windows to avoid VirtualStore. /Lew --- Lew Perin / perin@acm.org http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html