Re: [ros-svn] [ion] 12740: Fix my previous patch and fix ACCESS_TOKEN being declared as a structure. This is incompatible with DDK/W32API because ACCESS_TOKEN is a PVOID. The real structure is TOKEN. Also, structure has been updated.

ion(a)svn.reactos.com wrote:
>   Fix my previous patch and fix ACCESS_TOKEN being
> declared as a structure. This is incompatible with DDK/W32API because ACCESS_TOKEN is a
> PVOID. The real structure is TOKEN. Also, structure has been updated.
>   
I think Microsoft declared PACCESS_TOKEN as a void pointer in order to 
hide the internals of ACCESS_TOKEN because the average developer does 
not need to access it or they don't want to reveal more information than 
needed.

Please don't break what's working and revert this patch!
We are using our own set of headers because we need to fix crippled 
declarations and add missing ones. If you want to build ReactOS using 
the MS SDK and DDK fix them instead of breaking our headers and code.


Regards,
Eric

[Filip Navara]

Eric Kohl wrote:

>   ion(a)svn.reactos.com wrote:
>
> >   Fix my previous patch and fix ACCESS_TOKEN being
> > declared as a 
> >  structure. This is incompatible with DDK/W32API because ACCESS_TOKEN 
> >  is a PVOID. The real structure is TOKEN. Also, structure has been 
> >  updated.
> >  
>  I think Microsoft declared PACCESS_TOKEN as a void pointer in order to 
>  hide the internals of ACCESS_TOKEN because the average developer does 
>  not need to access it or they don't want to reveal more information 
>  than needed.
>
>  Please don't break what's working and revert this patch! 
+1

- Filip

[Alex Ionescu]

Eric Kohl wrote:

>   ion(a)svn.reactos.com wrote:
>
> >   Fix my previous patch and fix ACCESS_TOKEN being
> > declared as a 
> >  structure. This is incompatible with DDK/W32API because ACCESS_TOKEN 
> >  is a PVOID. The real structure is TOKEN. Also, structure has been 
> >  updated.
> >  
>  I think Microsoft declared PACCESS_TOKEN as a void pointer in order to 
>  hide the internals of ACCESS_TOKEN because the average developer does 
>  not need to access it or they don't want to reveal more information 
>  than needed. 
Yes, just like they did with PSID, and the real structure's pointer name 
is PISID.

>  
>  Please don't break what's working  
What have I broken?

>   and revert this patch! 
Why revert to something BROKEN?

>   We are using our own set of headers because we need to
> fix crippled 
>  declarations and add missing ones.  
No, within a week or two we will be building with the new header system 
I'm working on, which is SDK/DDK compliant, based on W32API and removes 
all the thousand of include files which have created this mess everyone 
hates.

>   If you want to build ReactOS using the MS SDK and DDK
> fix them instead 
>  of breaking our headers and code. 
I have not "Broken" anything, unless you can show me proof of that. I 
have fixed an *incorrect* definition of a structure which would render 
our code incompatible with SDK/DDK compilation and the new w32api-based 
header system. I cannot 'fix" the MS  SDK and DDK.  The real structure 
name is Token, and PACCESS_TOKEN is a PVOID in all forms and instances.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu

>  
>
>  Regards,
>  Eric