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On Dec 14 10:15, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Shankar Unni wrote:
> 
> > > The manifest route is pretty simple, you just create an .xml file, then
> > > refer to it in a resource file, and then windres does the rest.
> > 
> > But in cases like this, we really *don't* want to run with elevated
> > privileges - if I'm "install"ing to /tmp, I definitely don't want to
> > raise my privileges needlessly and potentially set up a security risk
> > somewhere. (Admittedly this is an unlikely scenario, but...)
> 
> I thought the idea here was that the manifest tells the system
> explicitly "I am not an installer and I do not need to be run with
> elevated privileges", i.e. treat it like a normal program.

"Somebody would have to try it"(tm)  So far I don't know if this also
works with CreateProcess, or if this still requires to call
ShellExecute.  In the first case the manifest would help, but in the
second case we have no other choice than the FAQ entry.  Well, time
will show.


Corinna

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