From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs master, security concernes, ms-windows
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 17:20:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fubpxq60.fsf@qcore> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAFgFV9Mji90Fzx4rDt4zzmhoJNWrJpiOP4ehuvt7cQJR9SUoVQ@mail.gmail.com
Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@centralesupelec.fr> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-14 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-14 7:58 Emacs master, security concernes, ms-windows Fabrice Popineau
2017-09-14 13:33 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-09-14 13:46 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-09-14 15:20 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2017-09-14 15:56 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-09-14 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-14 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-14 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-14 14:13 ` Andy Moreton
2017-09-14 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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