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