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Re: csih: Patch getVolInfo.c
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:26:57 +0200
- Subject: Re: csih: Patch getVolInfo.c
- References: <20090722185402.GS27613@calimero.vinschen.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Eric,
On Jul 22 20:54, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi Chuck,
>
> today I found a filesystem, HGFS, which is sensible against using just
> the READ_CONTROL flag in calls to NtOpenFile. The result is a
> STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER status code.
>
> However, for access to the filesystem information, the READ_CONTROL
> isn't necessary. A desired access of 0 is sufficient in every case
> I could lay my hands on (NTFS, NFS, Samba, FAT32, HGFS).
>
> So I just applied a patch to Cygwin to fetch filesystem information
> with access set to 0.
along these lines, can you please test the change to mount.cc on MVFS?
It would be a pity if MVFS would be broken again due to this change,
after having gone through all the hassle of the last days.
Thanks,
Corinna
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