[PATCH] FAST_CWD: adjust the initial search scope

Johannes Schindelin Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de
Wed Jan 11 19:48:00 GMT 2017


Hi Corinna,

On Wed, 11 Jan 2017, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Jan 11 14:21, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > A *very* recent Windows build adds more code to the preamble of
> > RtlGetCurrentDirectory_U() so that the previous heuristic failed to
> > find the call to the locking routine.
> > 
> > This only affects the 64-bit version of ntdll, where the 0xe8 byte is
> > now found at offset 40, not the 32-bit version. However, let's just
> > double the area we search for said byte for good measure.
> 
> any chance to convince the powers that be to open up access to this
> datastructures without such hacky means?

I try my best.

Ciao,
Johannes



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