Re: Tests for NtCreateMailslotFile

[Jeff L]

Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> Jeff Latimer wrote:
> > This is the first of some tests for NtCreateMailslotFile.  I have 
> > included them in kernel32/tests as I thought it better that the Mailslot 
> > tests be collocated.
>
> Why do you need to test NtCreateMailslotFile directly? Why can't you use
> CreateMailslot instead?
>
> Vitaliy.
> Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
>
> NtCreateMailslotFile is a public API, so probably it should handle
> the casewhen attr is NULL. I see the same problem at least in
> NtCreateNamedPipeFile.
> In general, handling of OBJECT_ATTRIBUTES in ntdll is not
> consistent, but
> fixing it properly most likely a test is needed to see what
> Windows does
> in that case.

I am following the suggestion from Dmitry.  In my testing so far I have 
noticed that there are a number of edit conditions that are not yet 
implemented.  These won't be tested as easily by CreateMailslot.

Jeff