XP crash (OT)
David Fritz
zeroxdf@att.net
Thu Jun 3 23:12:00 GMT 2004
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?
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