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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: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:57:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wnaw3asz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL7sU5i8pFP3UvWWsoUEk81nYaXn-Z-KBWurMGRVFeKtCg2AJA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Kiên Nguyễn Quang on Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:51:30 +0900)

> From: Kiên Nguyễn Quang <kien.n.quang@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:51:30 +0900
> Cc: 57386@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > When you call an API with a parameter that is invalid, you are risking
> > an exception, depending on the API and the build (debug or not).  This
> > has various unpleasant consequences; in the worst case, the Emacs
> > process could be terminated.  As documented, the problem is limited to
> > CRT functions, but our general policy is to avoid that even when using
> > the Win32 APIs.  And version check is a simple enough way of avoiding
> > that, so I see no reason not to do it here.
> 
> Okay, that makes sense. Although I think that's the problem of CRT APIs only, as API should never throw
> exceptions, which is a foreign concept to ABI and requires an exact library match to handle correctly
> 
> The new patch is attached.

Thanks, but I think you sent a wrong patch?





  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-25  9:57 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
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 [this message]
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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