Problems on accessing Windows network resources

Corinna Vinschen cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Mon Jul 14 18:03:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 01:32:56PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> 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?

INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE is also used to initialize local variables.
I'd like to keep that value if you don't mind.

Thanks for the offer, though,
Corinna

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