On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 06:46:11PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >This patch prevents NtCreateFile from creating files with special >names such as NUL. >Because this needs to be checked very often, I tried to code it >efficiently with a binary search (it can perhaps be reused elsewhere). > >The new function is_special_name() overlaps with special_name(), >although there are small differences (it was designed from tests >on XP Home Ed). Perhaps these two can be merged one day.
Haven't we already done a "GetFileAttributes" on the path by the time it reaches the NtCreateFile? If so, couldn't we just avoid trying to create a file which has "bad" attributes? cgf