Hi Ken,

On Dec 21 15:48, Ken Brown wrote:
> [Moving from cygwin to cygwin-developers.]
> 
> Hi Corinna,
> 
> On 12/19/2019 4:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Ken, btw., we should add a PIPE_REJECT_REMOTE_CLIENTS flag, just for
> > paranoia.
> 
> Should this be FILE_PIPE_REJECT_REMOTE_CLIENTS?  It seems that most of the flags 
> for NtCreateNamedPipeFile start with "FILE_".

Right, it's FILE_PIPE_REJECT_REMOTE_CLIENTS, sorry about that.

> And which argument of NtCreateNamedPipeFile should that flag be in?  None of 
> them seem quite right to me.  Or is there some other function that should be 
> called after NtCreateNamedPipeFile to set that flag?

AFAICS it's a flag added to the message type, i.e.

  FILE_PIPE_MESSAGE_TYPE | FILE_PIPE_REJECT_REMOTE_CLIENTS

> Last question: The only documentation I found for NtCreateNamedPipeFile is here:
>  
> http://undocumented.ntinternals.net/index.html?page=UserMode%2FUndocumented%20Functions%2FNT%20Objects%2FFile%2FNtCreateFile.html
> 
> Is there anything better?

Not that I'm aware of.   There's only this and the Reactos source.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer