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Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set


On Aug 12 18:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 12 11:51, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 04:48:48PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >On Aug 12 16:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >> On Aug 12 10:12, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >> > I've done some googling but I can't find an answer to this: Is it
> > >> > possible to create a directory which can't be written to - even by a
> > >> > privileged user?
> > >> 
> > >> No.  I never came across a directory which is not writable under
> > >> SE_BACKUP_NAME conditions.
> > >
> > >What if we create a subdirectory like C:/cygwin/.for_win32_only
> > >for exactly this one single purpose, to redirect any relative
> > >Win32 calls there?
> > 
> > I guess that would be an acceptable compromise if the below doesn't past
> > muster:
> > 
> > On XP, at least, we could set the current directory to '//?/PIPE'.
> > That causes CreateFile to fail.  I used the program below to test
> > that.
> > 
> >   sh-3.2$ ./setdir '//?/PIPE'
> >   SetCurrentDirectory succeeded
> >   CreateFile failed, 123
> > 
> > I'll try that on other systems to see if it still behaves predictably.
> 
> Works fine on W7 if you specify \\?\PIPE\, with the trailing backslash.
> Without trailing backslash it fails:
> 
>  $ ./setdir '\\?\PIPE'
>  SetCurrentDirectory faile, 123
> 
>  $ ./setdir '\\?\PIPE\'
>  CreateFile failed, 2
> 
> That sounds like a neat solution.  I would never have expected that
> SetCurrentDirectory works for the pipe FS.

Just checked on Win2K and XP.  When using a traling (back)slash,
the behaviour is identical to Win7.  That's promising.


Corinna

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