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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: Changes in update-game-score.c |
Date: | Wed, 22 Jan 2014 19:32:01 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Why do we suddenly care about it so much?
We got a bug report about it, which I fixed, and I noticed some other bugs in the neighborhood, including undefined behavior and race conditions which are dicey in a setuid program (it's bad PR at the very least). A feature freeze shouldn't prevent us from fixing such bugs.
The main culprit here was the w32 port's definition of fchmod as a noop for Emacs, and its failure to define fchmod for non-Emacs executables. We can't expect non-w32 experts to anticipate that sort of tricky situation flawlessly every time.
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