Re: Changes in update-game-score.c

[Paul Eggert]

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.