[PATCH 1/4] server: Allow named pipes creation with device file as root directory.

[Paul Gofman]

On 11/11/20 22:09, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Paul Gofman <pgofman at codeweavers.com> writes:
>
>> @@ -1350,28 +1350,39 @@ DECL_HANDLER(create_named_pipe)
>>      struct named_pipe *pipe;
>>      struct pipe_server *server;
>>      struct unicode_str name;
>> -    struct object *root;
>> +    struct object *root = NULL;
>>      const struct security_descriptor *sd;
>> -    const struct object_attributes *objattr = get_req_object_attributes( &sd, &name, &root );
>> +    const struct object_attributes *objattr = get_req_object_attributes( &sd, &name, NULL );
> It should be possible to make get_req_object_attributes() not require a
> directory instead.
>
Will it be better to pass object ops to get_req_object_attributes() and
update the usages accordingly? Possibly allowing NULL which will default
to directory.