From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16887 invoked by alias); 21 Feb 2012 17:12:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 16786 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Feb 2012 17:11:53 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:11:03 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 96D7E2C006A; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:11:00 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:12:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: shared_info::init_obcaseinsensitive implemented incorrectly Message-ID: <20120221171100.GM22597@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20120221115510.GG22597@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120221115510.GG22597@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-02/txt/msg00631.txt.bz2 On Feb 21 12:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Please, don't http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU > > > On Feb 21 11:34, Nick Lowe wrote: > > I really should subscribe to get individual messages and not just the > > digest so that I can reply properly. Sorry! > > > > > Just call NtOpenDirectoryObject on \\SYSTEMROOT, rather than NtOpenSymbolicLinkObject. > > > > I would have thought that NtOpenSymbolicLinkObject would have been the > > more correct approach as the object expected is a symbolic link. No? > > Depends on what you define as correct. Since you only call the function > to find out the state of case sensitivity and don't need the handle, > why not use a function which you know fails in a specific way? > > > >That's not an off-chance. It works for all admin accounts. > > > > Hmm, strange. Unless the query (0x1) symbolic link specific access > > right is specified, I always get STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED. With it > > specified, it succeeds as an administrator or fails otherwise. > > I missed that. You're right, with a 0 access mask it fails with > STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED. Well, it works one way or the other, right? :) I applied a matching patch: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2012-q1/msg00115.html Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple