CreateFile access/sharing problem

[Bill Medland]

On October 5, 2005 03:56 pm, Robert Shearman wrote:
> 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?
>
> Yes, it is exactly that. There is a port of that function into
> wineserver in server/token.c called map_generic_mask that I
> used for the purpose of mapping generic access rights in the
> token functions. The problem with translating from generic
> access rights is that they don't map onto Unix access rights
> very well. I suspect that the best solution is to request read
> access if any of the NT read rights are requested and
> similarly for the write rights.

Except that is largely irrelevant in this particular case.  It's 
the mapping from GENERIC to <OBJECT>_... (e.g. FILE_) that is 
relevant, and as Vitaliy pointed out, that is in the object 
area.

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