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

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 13:23:01 +0000

Your bug report

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

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#57386: 29.0.50; support make-symbolic-link without admin priviledge on Windows
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Kiên Nguyễn Quang <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:22:37 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> From: Kiên Nguyễn Quang <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 19:32:13 +0900
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Oops. Here it is.

Thanks.  I installed this (with minor changes), but please in the
future make sure your commit log messages follow our conventions (as
described in CONTRIBUTE), because this patch was rejected by our Git
commit hooks, and I had to apply it "by hand".

Subject: 29.0.50; support make-symbolic-link without admin priviledge on Windows
From: Kiên Nguyễn Quang <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:33:58 +0900
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

The CreateSymbolicLink Win32API has a flag that allows creating sym-links
without admin privileges SYMBOLIC_LINK_FLAG_ALLOW_UNPRIVILEGED_CREATE.
This patch added that support for w32 Emacs.