bug#6126: 24.0.50; Segmentation fault when w32-shell-execute try to open an unassociated file

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 02:00:49 +0200
>> Cc: 6126@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> - In w32_error the argument error_no has type int. It should be more
>> easy to understand if it had the type DWORD which is what GetLastError
>> returns. Will using int be correct on all w32 platforms?
>
> Yes.  DWORD is an unsigned 32-bit integer type on all versions of
> Windows, even on 64-bit Windows.  (I agree that it would be better to
> use `unsigned int' rather than just `int', though.)


Hi Eli,

Wouldn't it be better to just use DWORD which is what is used in the
ms docs for GetLastError etc? Maybe that would confuse newcomers quite
a bit less?


>> - The call to error in w32-shell-execute has only two arguments. Is
>> that correct?
>
> Yes, the other arguments are optional, see the doc string.
>
>> error in eval.c takes four arguments.
>
> `error' accepts a variable-size argument list, like `printf'.  This is
> stated in the commentary in eval.c.


Oh, sorry. Thanks.


>> - The parameter lpBuffer to FormatMessage has the type LPTSTR. Is it
>> correct to call that with *char (ie buf)?
>
> Yes.  LPTSTR is defined as a `char *' in non-Unicode builds, and as a
> `wchar_t *' in Unicode builds (which we don't yet support in Emacs,
> but we should, some day).


When that has been done I think using LPTSTR would be best. Maybe
putting a note there why it is not LPTSTR today would be good?


>> It looks in the backtrace
>> like even the argument a1 to error is incorrect.
>
> If you mean these parts of the backtrace:
>
>    a1=0x40008048 <Address 0x40008048 out of bounds>,
>    a2=0x40008048 <Address 0x40008048 out of bounds>,
>    a3=0x40008048 <Address 0x40008048 out of bounds>) at eval.c:2078
>
> then it looks like `error' handles that just fine, because the value
> of `args[]' computed from them is correct:


It just looked strange to me that they all three have the same value.
Is that how it normally looks then a2 and a3 are not given?


>        args = {
>          0x137bc48
> "\317\265\315\263\325\322\262\273\265\275\326\270\266\250\265\304\316\304\274\376\241\243\r\n",
>          0x465fc78 "C:\\abc.ttt", 0x0}
>
> Maybe the problem happens because the error string (args[0]) is
> encoded in a locale-specific encoding, so perhaps calling build_string
> on it is not TRT.


I guess it is sometning with the encoding, but I really have no more
accurate idea of it.