On October 5, 2005 03:56 pm, Robert Shearman wrote: > Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: > >"Vitaliy Margolen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>It is an additional flags to the rest of the file flags > >> because they are transferred all the way to the kernel. And > >> being translated into specific access rights by an object > >> manager according to the object type. It has array of the > >> generic attributes mappings. > > > >Does the ntdll export RtlMapGenericMask have anything to do > > with mapping GENERIC_xxxx flags into STANDARD_RIGHTS_xxxx? > > Is there any information regarding that? > > Yes, it is exactly that. There is a port of that function into > wineserver in server/token.c called map_generic_mask that I > used for the purpose of mapping generic access rights in the > token functions. The problem with translating from generic > access rights is that they don't map onto Unix access rights > very well. I suspect that the best solution is to request read > access if any of the NT read rights are requested and > similarly for the write rights.
Except that is largely irrelevant in this particular case. It's the mapping from GENERIC to <OBJECT>_... (e.g. FILE_) that is relevant, and as Vitaliy pointed out, that is in the object area. -- Bill Medland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webhome.idirect.com/~kbmed
