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Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 06:26:21PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Yeah, Winobj is one of my favorite tools. Nevertheless, I would
>never have expected... etc.
>
>Btw:
>
> SetCurrentDirectory ("//?/PIPE/");
> CreateFile ("../C:/foo", ...);
>
>works. Go figure!
It works on NT4 too. No trailing slash needed, not that that matters.
cgf