Subject: Re: bug#57386: 29.0.50; support make-symbolic-link without admin priviledge on Windows

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 21:26:50 +0300

> From: Kiên Nguyễn Quang <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 03:05:37 +0900
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> You're right, there's a stupid check against parameters on the version that doesn't support the new flag.
> Since from Windows 10, the Windows version checking is not recommended (and not accurate) anymore, I
> think we can just retry if the function is called with invalid parameters.
> That will probably slow down the down-level Windows versions, but the difference should not be too much.

Unfortunately, invalid parameters could cause Emacs to abort,
depending on how it was linked.  So I still think checking the version
of Windows is the way to go.  That MS don't recommend that doesn't
mean we must abide by their recommendations.