From: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel32: CreateDirectory shouldn't return ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED for the root of the drive.
Message-Id: <87sgz4dvei.fsf@winehq.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:51:01 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20181211130332.df4244c0451dcacab0fe4803@baikal.ru> (Dmitry Timoshkov's message of "Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:03:32 +0300")
References: <20181211130332.df4244c0451dcacab0fe4803@baikal.ru>

Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry@baikal.ru> writes:

> According to the testbot results CreateDirectory("C:\\", NULL) fails
> with ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED for not administrators. However with UAC enabled
> and not and administrator account I get ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS in that case
> with Windows 7 64-bit running on real hardware. Moreover, Wine doesn't
> really perform any access checks in that case and blindly assumes that
> returning STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED is correct behaviour for the drive's root:
> dlls/ntdll/directory.c,lookup_unix_name().
>
> This patch fixes an application that can't find its data files because
> after it receives ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED it stops further directory traversing.

What app is that? Does it fail on Windows when not administrator?

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard@winehq.org