From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C file recoginzed as image file Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:08:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: <45A2D32A.8020804@gmail.com> <45A3650B.80504@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168377063 13928 80.91.229.12 (9 Jan 2007 21:11:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 21:11:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dooglus@gmail.com, lekktu@gmail.com, c.a.rendle@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, storm@cua.dk, eliz@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 09 22:11:01 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H4OFD-00077Z-BJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:10:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H4OFC-0007gG-RS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:10:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H4OD3-0005Kz-8D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:08:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H4OD2-0005Jp-9Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:08:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H4OD2-0005Ja-2d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:08:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H4OD1-0004Ok-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:08:39 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1H4OCW-00046W-6j; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:08:08 -0500 Original-To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" In-reply-to: <45A3650B.80504@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:65077 Archived-At: Whichever way it is done it puts a new burdon on the user who have to look for security updates to these image libraries and somehow update them in case of a security problem with them. And in addition to this there might be a long delay before the libraries are updated in gnuwin32. Maybe so. Using Microsoft libraries would be more convenient for users, but more work for us, since they use incompatible calling conventions. Furthermore, Microsoft software is famous for having more vulnerabilities than GNU/Linux. So I don't think that is a solution to the security concerns. It would enable us to say "It's Microsoft's fault", but would not prevent the problem.