null fscontext

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in my routines, i sometimes receive a fileobject with a null fscontext
value. under what circumstances will this happen?

Ho Mun Chuen
@@ “Not everything that counts can be counted;
<” )~ and not everything that can be counted counts"
//\ … Albert Einstein

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My understanding is that the FsContext is NULL if the fileobj hasn’t
passed throught the complete create path yet

Bartjan

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in my routines, i sometimes receive a fileobject with a null
fscontext value. under what circumstances will this happen?

Ho Mun Chuen
@@ “Not everything that counts can be counted;
<” )~ and not everything that can be counted counts"
//\ … Albert Einstein

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Probably for the DASD file object, or maybe for directories, even.

in my routines, i sometimes receive a fileobject with a null fscontext
value. under what circumstances will this happen?

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DASD opens is one possible case

Jamey

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Subject: [ntfsd] null fscontext

in my routines, i sometimes receive a fileobject with a null fscontext
value. under what circumstances will this happen?

Ho Mun Chuen
@@ “Not everything that counts can be counted;
<” )~ and not everything that can be counted counts"
//\ … Albert Einstein

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The RAW file system doesn’t use the FsContext field, and doesn’t
initialize it ever.
Ravi

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Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 8:15 AM
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Subject: [ntfsd] Re: null fscontext

Probably for the DASD file object, or maybe for directories, even.

in my routines, i sometimes receive a fileobject with a null fscontext

value. under what circumstances will this happen?

–
Kind regards, Dejan M. www.alfasp.com
E-mail: xxxxx@alfasp.com ICQ#: 56570367
Alfa File Monitor - File monitoring library for Win32 developers. Alfa
File Protector - File protection and hiding library for Win32
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