Re: Problems on accessing Windows network resources

["Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> Hi Pierre,
> 

> I've applied this patch.  I've just changed the code to use
> INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE instead of NULL throughout.
> 
> Thanks,
> Corinna
> 
Hi Corinna,

I was going to send you the modified patch tonight, with some extra
cleanup added.

After researching the issue, all cygwin routines I could find (not
only those ntsec related) initialize their handles to NULL, except
subauth() and create_token(). Those exceptions make sense because 
those two must return INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE on error.

The patch itself avoids initializing any handle (avoiding ambiguity), 
except the usual automatic initialization to 0 of the cygheap stuff.  

Do you want my patch anyway (reverting what you have just applied), 
or do we leave things as they are?

Pierre