Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [pschweitzer] 65352: [NTOSKRNL] So... Because actual ReactOS mood is to worship hacks instead of looking for proper fixes to have decent behavior: reenable the IopParseDevice hack. But, so far, onl...

[Pierre Schweitzer]

Not at all. Because it breaks most of the features we could expect from
1st stage. Such as formatting with something else than FAT.
So, having it enabled in 1st stage is a total defeat.
Having it disabled elsewhere just unlocks software that rely on volume
open (such as NTFS tools).

On 10/11/2014 10:50, Aleksey Bragin wrote:
> Thank you for working on this hack (partial) removal!
>
> After all, having it only in the 1st stage is a win over having it
> enabled all the time.
>
> Regards,
> Aleksey
>
> On 10.11.2014 12:45, [e-mail] wrote:
> > Author: pschweitzer
> > Date: Mon Nov 10 09:45:43 2014
> > New Revision: 65352
> >
> > URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=65352&view=rev
> > Log:
> > [NTOSKRNL]
> > So... Because actual ReactOS mood is to worship hacks instead of
> > looking for proper fixes to have decent behavior: reenable the
> > IopParseDevice hack.
> >
> > But, so far, only reenable it for the 1st stage: the most intensive
> > storage stack stage (unless you start playing with partitions &
> > formating in 3rd stage).
> >
> > CORE-8732 #resolve #comment Bug is now properly hidden with r65352
> >
> > Modified:
> >      trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/io/iomgr/file.c
> >
> > Modified: trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/io/iomgr/file.c
> > URL:
> > http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/io/iomgr/file.c?re...
> >
> > ==============================================================================
> >
> > --- trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/io/iomgr/file.c    [iso-8859-1] (original)
> > +++ trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/io/iomgr/file.c    [iso-8859-1] Mon Nov 10
> > 09:45:43 2014
> > @@ -404,6 +404,27 @@
> >       /* Check if we can simply use a dummy file */
> >       UseDummyFile = ((OpenPacket->QueryOnly) ||
> > (OpenPacket->DeleteOnly));
> > /* FIXME: Small hack still exists, have to check why...
> > * This is triggered multiple times by usetup and then once per
> >
> > boot.
> > */
> > if (ExpInTextModeSetup &&
> >    !(DirectOpen) &&
> >    !(RemainingName->Length) &&
> >    !(OpenPacket->RelatedFileObject) &&
> >    ((wcsstr(CompleteName->Buffer, L"Harddisk")) ||
> >    (wcsstr(CompleteName->Buffer, L"Floppy"))) &&
> >    !(UseDummyFile))
> > {
> >    DPRINT1("Using IopParseDevice() hack. Requested invalid
> >
> > attributes: %lx\n",
> >    DesiredAccess & ~(SYNCHRONIZE |
> >                      FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES |
> >                      READ_CONTROL |
> >                      ACCESS_SYSTEM_SECURITY |
> >                      WRITE_OWNER |
> >                      WRITE_DAC));
> >    DirectOpen = TRUE;
> > }
> > /* Check if this is a direct open */
> > if (!(RemainingName->Length) &&
> >     !(OpenPacket->RelatedFileObject) &&
>
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Pierre Schweitzer <pierre at reactos.org>
System & Network Administrator
Senior Kernel Developer
ReactOS Deutschland e.V.