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Re: XP crash (OT)


On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 07:11:20PM -0400, David Fritz wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>[...]
>>>Interestingly enough, I just added some checking to fhandler_base::open 
>>>which
>>>used RtlIsDosDeviceName_U.  It caused a reboot of my XP system every time
>>>I tried it.  That's a first for XP.
>>
>>
>>Oops.  No, that was the result of passing garbage to
>>InitializeObjectAttributes apparently.  Seems like a pretty serious XP
>>bug regardless.
>[...]
>
>Are you sure?  InitializeObjectAttributes() is a macro.
>
>How was the garbage being passed?

Maybe it was NtCreateFile, then.

cgf


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