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

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Message #32 received at 57386 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Kiên Nguyễn Quang <kien.n.quang <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 57386 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57386: 29.0.50; support make-symbolic-link without admin
 priviledge on Windows
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:57:32 +0300

> From: Kiên Nguyễn Quang <kien.n.quang <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:51:30 +0900
> Cc: 57386 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > When you call an API with a parameter that is invalid, you are risking
> > an exception, depending on the API and the build (debug or not).  This
> > has various unpleasant consequences; in the worst case, the Emacs
> > process could be terminated.  As documented, the problem is limited to
> > CRT functions, but our general policy is to avoid that even when using
> > the Win32 APIs.  And version check is a simple enough way of avoiding
> > that, so I see no reason not to do it here.
> 
> Okay, that makes sense. Although I think that's the problem of CRT APIs only, as API should never throw
> exceptions, which is a foreign concept to ABI and requires an exact library match to handle correctly
> 
> The new patch is attached.

Thanks, but I think you sent a wrong patch?

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