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bug#2956: 23.0.92; anything.el causes BSOD on vista64 dual-processor


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: bug#2956: 23.0.92; anything.el causes BSOD on vista64 dual-processor
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:39:00 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> The fact (if it is a fact) that a problem manifests itself only on
> Vista does not necessarily mean there's no bug in Emacs, especially
> since the variety of different systems on which Emacs is routinely
> tested is so small.  Some positive evidence is required to deduce that
> the bug is in the underlying OS.  Do you have such an evidence?

An unprivileged process able to crash the OS is always a bug in the OS.
This is independent of whether there is a workaround.

Andreas.

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