Subject: Re: bug#20220: severe memory leak on emacs 24.4.1

From: Mario Valencia <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 06:33:44 -0500

Thx, I will. It would also be nice to know what causes the bug, rather than
just fixing it by workaround tho.

2015-04-10 6:29 GMT-05:00 Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>:

> > Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:24:18 +0300
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: [email-masked]
> >
> > So I think the solution is to change w32-shell-execute to convert
> > file:/// URLs into the normal file-name format internally, and use
> > that in the call to ShellExecute.
>
> Btw, until that change is made, you can make an equivalent change in
> browse-url.el, e.g. by providing a trivial wrapper for
> w32-shell-execute.  Then you will have the problem solved in the same
> binary you already have.
>