[issue40214] test_ctypes.test_load_dll_with_flags Windows failure

[Eryk Sun]

Eryk Sun <eryksun at gmail.com> added the comment:

> Maybe something else was installed that put an incompatible 
> _sqlite3.dll on PATH? Thereby proving the inherent risk of 
> using unsafe DLL load settings 

should_pass() sets the working directory of the test process to the `tmp` directory. The loader normally checks the working directory before PATH. But maybe the system itself is configured to disallow loading DLLs from the working directory. There's a registry setting for that, but it's little known and rarely used because it's disruptive in general.

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nosy: +eryksun

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