Reason for some process failures in kernel32 tests

Paul Vriens paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com
Mon Jan 1 10:12:27 CST 2007


On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 16:25 +0100, Wagner Ferenc wrote:
> Paul Vriens <paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > The winetest gui shows that the working directory is (in this case)
> > c:\temp\wct12. This value is however not passed to the tests when
> > CreateProcess is run:
> >
> > main.c:
> >
> > 291     if (!CreateProcessA (NULL, cmd, NULL, NULL, TRUE, 0,
> > 292                          NULL, NULL, &si, &pi)) {
>            ,--------------------------^
> MSDN: If this parameter is NULL, the new process will have the same
>       current drive and directory as the calling process.
> 
> The CreateProcess documentation is rather convoluted, though.  The
> first NULL also seems risky on first read.
That was exactly my point when putting in that piece of code :-).

This also means (me thinks) that the start-directory is used instead of
the working-directory.

Another approach would be to have winetest change the directory to the
working directory.

Cheers,

Paul.




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