Re: ole32: Do not open registry keys with no access rights.

[Sebastian Lackner]

On 29.02.2016 16:49, Thomas Faber wrote:
> While simply opening a subkey (as done here) does not require any
> access rights in particular, NtOpenKey with 0 desired access always
> fails with STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED on Windows.
> Consequently specifying a nonzero access is a prerequisite for some day
> fixing Wine's NtOpenKey behavior in this regard.

It would be nice to have tests for that in the wine source tree
(marked with todo_wine, until all places which rely on it have been fixed).

ole32: Do not open registry keys with no access rights.

[Thomas Faber]

On 2016-02-29 17:03, Sebastian Lackner wrote:
> On 29.02.2016 16:49, Thomas Faber wrote:
> > While simply opening a subkey (as done here) does not require any
> > access rights in particular, NtOpenKey with 0 desired access always
> > fails with STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED on Windows.
> > Consequently specifying a nonzero access is a prerequisite for some day
> > fixing Wine's NtOpenKey behavior in this regard.
>
> It would be nice to have tests for that in the wine source tree
> (marked with todo_wine, until all places which rely on it have been fixed).

It definitely would!
Patch submitted.

Thanks,
Thomas