bug#15648: 24.2.50; gnutls SSL connection to IMAP server causes emacs to crash completely, bug#15648: 24.2.50; gnutls SSL connection to IMAP server causes emacs to crash completely

[emacs]

Ted Zlatanov wrote at about 16:06:07 -0400 on Tuesday, October 22, 2013:
 > On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:10:29 -0400 <emacs@kosowsky.org> wrote: 
 > 
 > >> OK - I answered my own question.
 > >> There seems to be an incompatibility with the cygwin-mount library...
 > 
 > > In particular, the problem seems to be with the called cygwin mount
 > > program (/bin/mount.exe). Replacing it with /bin/true.exe prevents the
 > > crash.
 > 
 > > I wonder whether this is a dll incompatibility with cygwin.dll or in
 > > particular the x86_64 version...
 > 
 > Nice detective work.  I don't know why it happens, sorry.  The GnuTLS
 > project has a mailing list; maybe there someone will know.  There must
 > be something mixed up between the two DLLs.
 > 
 > Ted

I will follow up...

Still, I'm surprised that Emacs itself would crash so violently. I
have been using Emacs for 30 years and I can't recall ever crashing
Emacs itself (except maybe ~25 years ago when people started first
(unofficially) porting Emacs to X10/X11). Even if there is an external
dll conflict, I would think that at worse it should return an error,
but should not crash emacs -- certainly since gnutls is now included
in Emacs, I would think that it should be crash protected...