GNU bug report logs - #12621
Win32 (Ver:24.2); Crashes when files from shared folders are accessed

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Packages: emacs, w32;

Reported by: Arvind Devarajan <arvind.devarajan <at> outlook.com>

Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:49:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Arūnas Rukšnaitis <aris020 <at> yahoo.co.uk>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 12621 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12621: Emacs 24.1 crashing on Win7
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:09:09 +0000
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Yes, I agree,  lpSystemName should be always NULL.
The w32-get-true-file-attributes variable should be taken into account.
DFS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_File_System_(Microsoft) 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_File_System_%28Microsoft%29>
No, I did not compile eMacs myself. I would be interested in compiling 
x64 version, but I hear it is not trivial. Can you dropbox me your version?
Thanks for your help!
On 13/12/12 19:13, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:05:37 +0200
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
>> Cc: 12621 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> Sorry, I lost you.  What is a "DFS server", and how does it modify the
>> meaning of a UNC?  Can you show the full file name being referenced
>> here?
>> [...]
>> Can you show a command that crashes and an equivalent command that
>> doesn't?
> Actually, scratch all that.  I think we should simply always pass NULL
> as the first argument of LookupAccountSid.  If you compiled Emacs by
> yourself, can you try such a modification there, and see if that
> helps?  I'm interested to know not only whether the crashes go away
> when you use NULL, but also whether the file owner and group
> information is reported correctly.
>
> Thanks.

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