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

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From: Kiên Nguyễn Quang <kien.n.quang <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 57386 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57386: 29.0.50; support make-symbolic-link without admin priviledge on Windows
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 19:32:13 +0900

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Oops. Here it is.

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 6:57 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > 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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 Nguyen Quang Kien - グエン クアン キエン
 Software Developer @ MSD

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