bug#20220: severe memory leak on emacs 24.4.1

[Mario Valencia]

You are correct; the problem only happens with a file:/// url. The following executes without problem and emacs memory stays constant:

(dotimes (i 100) (w32-shell-execute "open" "c:/users/mario/desktop/x.html"))

With a file:/// url it triggers the bug:

(dotimes (i 100) (w32-shell-execute "open" "file:///c:/users/mario/desktop/x.html"))

2015-04-04 15:19 GMT-06:00 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:

> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 14:24:07 -0600
> From: Mario Valencia <mariovalspi@gmail.com>
> Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, 20220@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> I think the thread created is this:
> SHCORE.DLL!Ordinal254+0x9a0 <- start address

SHCORE.dll sounds like a Windows 8 version of shlwapi.dll, or maybe a
part of it.  So this looks very similar to what I saw on that single
Windows 7 system.

Do you also see that the problem happens only if w32-shell-execute is
called with a file:/// URL, and does not happen if it is called with a
normal Windows file name?