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Re: [Qemu-devel] Make 9pfs buildable for Windows


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Make 9pfs buildable for Windows
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:25:55 +0200
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On 29/09/2017 16:14, Michael Fritscher wrote:
>> Yes, that's pretty much the only way to do it; it's not the easiest
>> thing because you have to use NT kernel APIs (NtCreateFile) rather than
>> e.g. CreateFile.  Likewise for NtQueryAttributesFile,
>> NtQueryDirectoryObject, etc. NtOpenDirectoryObject. :(
>>
>> Paolo
>>
> Hi,
> 
> why do I need the NT* functions instead of the "normal" ones from
> kernel32? And it was working even with the posix functions some time ago
> (Which I'll port to current qemu atm)

openat lets you create a file from a directory handle and relative path.
 CreateFile doesn't let you do that, only the ntdll functions can.

Paolo



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