NTFS permissions

Mark Hammond MarkH at ActiveState.com
Sun Apr 22 18:52:14 EDT 2001


Tim Howarth wrote:

> Having serached Google I've found a couple of queries about this but no
> easy solutions.


Eeek!  I must have missed them.


> results in an error message "the data area passed to a system call is
> too small" but the permissions are copied.


  sigh*.  This is a trivial bug in win32security.  The C++ code is 
missing a simple "!" :(.

As a workaround, simply ignore the exception.  All future builds will 
have this fixed.

Mark.




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