CreateFile access/sharing problem

Eric Pouech eric.pouech at wanadoo.fr
Tue Oct 4 14:08:32 CDT 2005


Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> Monday, October 3, 2005, 11:21:37 PM, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> 
>>"Vitaliy Margolen" <wine-devel at kievinfo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>It is an additional flags to the rest of the file flags because they are
>>>transferred all the way to the kernel. And being translated into specific access
>>>rights by an object manager according to the object type. It has array of the
>>>generic attributes mappings.
> 
> 
>>Does the ntdll export RtlMapGenericMask have anything to do with mapping GENERIC_xxxx
>>flags into STANDARD_RIGHTS_xxxx? Is there any information regarding that?
> 
> 
> Hmm, I don't know nothing about that one. I did some reading about object
> manager and on of the functions of it is to translate those generic access flags
> into appropriate full attributes. What interesting is that it's not per object
> but per object type. So all files (real files, named pipes, etc) have the same
> mapping.
> I'm not sure how far should we go with this. But I have a big work cut out for
> me fixing wine's object manager.
Basically I think that GENERIC_READ as to be mapped so a set of lower 
level defines (STANDARD_RIGHTS_READ, FILE_READ_DATA, 
FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES, FILE_READ_EA, and SYNCHRONIZE), and actual 
permission to read the file is FILE_READ_DATA, not GENERIC_READ as we 
incorrectly do)
A+

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Eric Pouech




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