Re: Emacs master, security concernes, ms-windows

[Óscar Fuentes]

Fabrice Popineau <address@hidden> writes:

> At the moment, any libpng.dll (for example) on the PATH can be loaded by
> emacs.
> With this restriction, only the one provided with an emacs package will be.
>
> I came to 'fix' this because I am using the Anaconda Python distribution
> which also
> provides its own set of dlls. At some point I got a failure because their
> dlls got loaded,
> instead of the mingw64 ones.

I suffered a similar problem on the past.

The real concern about this patch is that it raises quite a bit the
minimum supported OS version, which is a big no-no, AFAIK.

Although I'm not sure what happens if you pass an unsupported flag to
LoadLibraryEx.

It is possible to implement your idea by using explicit paths.