[ros-dev] confusing smss routine (ea)

[Gunnar Dalsnes]

I was doing some changes to RtlCreateUserProcess and saw the strage 
rotuine SmCreateUserProcess:

http://svn.reactos.com/viewcvs/trunk/reactos/subsys/smss/smapiexec.c?rev=14…

It has several bugs/problems/confusions:
1) RtlDestroyProcessParameters is not called if RtlCreateUserProcess failed.
2) If WaitForIt is TRUE and you specify a timeout, the caller in not 
notified if SmCreateUserProcess returned due to timeout. The process 
will stay running forever.
3) If TerminateIt is TRUE, handles are closed. This is wrong/confusing. 
Closing the handles does not terminate the process (wrong name?).
4) If you dont pass a UserProcessInfo and TerminateIt is FALSE,
it will leak thread/process handles.
5) If you pass UserProcessInfo and TerminateIt is TRUE, the 
thread/process handles in UserProcessInfo will be invalid.

etc.etc.

VERY confusing and bug prone:

SmCreateUserProcess is used once in the end of this file and it pass 
FALSE for TerminateIt and pass no UserProcessInfo thus the 
thread/process handles will never be closed.


I should have fixed it myself if i just understod how this routine is 
_supposed_ to work:-D

Regards
Gunnar