missing advapi32 prototype: SystemFunction036

[James Hawkins]

While trying to install MyPhotoCalendars, an exception is raised
because of a call to the unimplemented function
advapi32.dll.SystemFunction036.
> From reading the following post,

http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/09/0265.html

I can see that it won't be very easy to even stub this function
because it's a hidden api.  What methods could I use to track down any
information about this function or its prototype?

[James Hawkins]

It turns out that the Dreamweaver MX 2004 installer needs this function too.

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:53:40 -0400, James Hawkins  wrote:
> While trying to install MyPhotoCalendars, an exception is raised
> because of a call to the unimplemented function
> advapi32.dll.SystemFunction036.
>
> From reading the following post,
>
> http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/09/0265.html
>
> I can see that it won't be very easy to even stub this function
> because it's a hidden api.  What methods could I use to track down any
> information about this function or its prototype?
>
> --
> James Hawkins

[Steven Edwards]

--- James Hawkins  wrote:
> It turns out that the Dreamweaver MX 2004 installer needs this
> function too.

After searching a bit I came to this as well

http://www.it.kth.se/~rom/ntsec.html#ntsec-crypto

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[James Hawkins]

> After searching a bit I came to this as well

Thanks for the links Steven.

Is there any way to obtain the prototype for any of these
SystemFunction's? possibly through a dll dump or something.

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:22:55 -0700 (PDT), Steven Edwards
 wrote:
> --- James Hawkins  wrote:
> > It turns out that the Dreamweaver MX 2004 installer needs this
> > function too.
>
> After searching a bit I came to this as well
>
> http://www.it.kth.se/~rom/ntsec.html#ntsec-crypto
>
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[Filip Navara]

James Hawkins wrote:
> > After searching a bit I came to this as well
>
> Thanks for the links Steven.
>
> Is there any way to obtain the prototype for any of these
> SystemFunction's? possibly through a dll dump or something.

If you ask specifically about SystemFunction036, then it's prototype is 
(IIRC)

VOID STDCALL
SystemFunction036(PCHAR Buffer, INT BufferSize);

It's some kind of random generator, but I don't know exactly how it works.

- Filip

[James Hawkins]

> VOID STDCALL
> SystemFunction036(PCHAR Buffer, INT BufferSize);

Thankyou very much Filip, now I can write a stub implementation for
it.  After adding the stub, MyPhotoCalendars gets a little further in
the install.

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:31:48 +0200, Filip Navara  wrote:
> James Hawkins wrote:
> > > After searching a bit I came to this as well
> >
> > Thanks for the links Steven.
> >
> > Is there any way to obtain the prototype for any of these
> > SystemFunction's? possibly through a dll dump or something.
>
> If you ask specifically about SystemFunction036, then it's prototype is
> (IIRC)
>
> VOID STDCALL
> SystemFunction036(PCHAR Buffer, INT BufferSize);
>
> It's some kind of random generator, but I don't know exactly how it works.
> - Filip

[Steven Edwards]

Hello,

--- James Hawkins  wrote:
> http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/09/0265.html
>
> I can see that it won't be very easy to even stub this function
> because it's a hidden api.  What methods could I use to track down
> any
> information about this function or its prototype?

Part of the system function API is (un)documented here

http://www.mo-ware.com/freeware/minicrk/minicrk.htm

Thanks
Steven

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[Filip Navara]

James Hawkins wrote:
> While trying to install MyPhotoCalendars, an exception is raised
> because of a call to the unimplemented function
> advapi32.dll.SystemFunction036.

This function was added in W2K or WXP IIRC. Can you try setting the 
emulated version of Windows to W98 or WNT?

- Filip

[James Hawkins]

> This function was added in W2K or WXP IIRC. Can you try setting the
> emulated version of Windows to W98 or WNT?

In the registry, HKLM\Software\Wine\Wine\Config\Version\Windows is set
to win98 and  "Windows"="win98" in config.  The results are the same
as before, sadly.

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:11:52 +0200, Filip Navara  wrote:
> James Hawkins wrote:
> > While trying to install MyPhotoCalendars, an exception is raised
> > because of a call to the unimplemented function
> > advapi32.dll.SystemFunction036.
>
> This function was added in W2K or WXP IIRC. Can you try setting the
> emulated version of Windows to W98 or WNT?
> - Filip

[Mike Hearn]

At least some are now documented on MSDN. I believe I submitted a patch 
to document what 40/41 do (they are crypto related).

The fact that an app is using the API strongly implies it's documented 
*somewhere*, don't you think? I would check for forward exports from 
other DLLs, for some reason Microsoft enjoy moving code around between 
DLLs and then using forwarding to make the changes transparent.

thanks -mike

James Hawkins wrote:
> While trying to install MyPhotoCalendars, an exception is raised
> because of a call to the unimplemented function
> advapi32.dll.SystemFunction036.
> > From reading the following post,
>
> http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/09/0265.html
>
> I can see that it won't be very easy to even stub this function
> because it's a hidden api.  What methods could I use to track down any
> information about this function or its prototype?