[PATCH] kernel32: CreateDirectory shouldn't return ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED for the root of the drive.

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:

> >> >> > According to the testbot results CreateDirectory("C:\\", NULL) fails
> >> >> > with ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED for not administrators. However with UAC enabled
> >> >> > and not and administrator account I get ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS in that case
> >> >> > with Windows 7 64-bit running on real hardware. Moreover, Wine doesn't
> >> >> > really perform any access checks in that case and blindly assumes that
> >> >> > returning STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED is correct behaviour for the drive's root:
> >> >> > dlls/ntdll/directory.c,lookup_unix_name().
> >> >> >
> >> >> > This patch fixes an application that can't find its data files because
> >> >> > after it receives ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED it stops further directory traversing.
> >> >> 
> >> >> What app is that? Does it fail on Windows when not administrator?
> >> >
> >> > The application doesn't fail on Windows, and as I mentioned above under
> >> > a not administrator account and UAC enabled I don't get ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED
> >> > error with the tests included in the patch.
> >> 
> >> Your tests get ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED on every single testbot vm except
> >> w8adm, so that's not very convincing... Is the app going to fail on all
> >> these vms?
> >
> > I'd guess if the CreateDirectory("C:\") returns ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED
> > then the app would fail. It's not clear how the VMs are configured
> > and why I don't get ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED on real hardware under a not
> > admin account, but it should be pretty obvious that since Wine doesn't
> > perform any real administrator access checks, and if it would the checks
> > should be done on the server side, ntdll checks shouldn't return access
> > denied error.
> 
> It's also pretty obvious that this check was added for a reason, so it
> would need a more convincing argument to remove it.

Do you recall the reason why that check was added? I can't find any
specific test case for this behaviour either.

-- 
Dmitry.