Re: [PATCH] FAST_CWD: adjust the initial search scope

2017-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 11 20:48, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
> 
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2017, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > On Jan 11 14:21, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > A *very* recent Windows build adds more code to the preamble of
> > > RtlGetCurrentDirectory_U() so that the previous heuristic failed to
> > > find the call to the locking routine.
> > > 
> > > This only affects the 64-bit version of ntdll, where the 0xe8 byte is
> > > now found at offset 40, not the 32-bit version. However, let's just
> > > double the area we search for said byte for good measure.
> > 
> > any chance to convince the powers that be to open up access to this
> > datastructures without such hacky means?
> 
> I try my best.

Thanks!  Patch pushed.


Corinna

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Re: [PATCH] FAST_CWD: adjust the initial search scope

2017-01-11 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Corinna,

On Wed, 11 Jan 2017, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Jan 11 14:21, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > A *very* recent Windows build adds more code to the preamble of
> > RtlGetCurrentDirectory_U() so that the previous heuristic failed to
> > find the call to the locking routine.
> > 
> > This only affects the 64-bit version of ntdll, where the 0xe8 byte is
> > now found at offset 40, not the 32-bit version. However, let's just
> > double the area we search for said byte for good measure.
> 
> any chance to convince the powers that be to open up access to this
> datastructures without such hacky means?

I try my best.

Ciao,
Johannes


Re: [PATCH] FAST_CWD: adjust the initial search scope

2017-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Johannes,

On Jan 11 14:21, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> A *very* recent Windows build adds more code to the preamble of
> RtlGetCurrentDirectory_U() so that the previous heuristic failed to find
> the call to the locking routine.
> 
> This only affects the 64-bit version of ntdll, where the 0xe8 byte is
> now found at offset 40, not the 32-bit version. However, let's just
> double the area we search for said byte for good measure.

any chance to convince the powers that be to open up access to this
datastructures without such hacky means?


Thanks,
Corinna

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