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Re: csih: Patch getVolInfo.c


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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