Re: Distributing Hotfix to patch IoCreateFileSpecifyDeviceObjectHint Support in W2K

Hey Neal,

With the latest batch of updates that came out today, is the IoCreateFileSpecifyDeviceObjectHint backport in any of them? I am trying to find information through the release notes but don’t seem to see it in any of these patches. The closest seems to be MS04-032, but I cannot confirm this. Can you point me to which update has the backport (if any)?


Regards,
Dana Epp
[Blog: http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/]

Neal Christiansen wrote:

As a matter of fact I do.

Microsoft’s Sustained Engineering group (WinSE) is in the process of
creating a security update for the W2K SP4 kernel that is going to be
released in October. This update will contain the backported
IoCreateFileSpecifyDeviceObjectHint API. For those of you who have
access to the WinSE Beta’s it will be in TP17. I believe this will go
out as a security update on Windows update but I am confirming this.

Since it would take about the same amount of time to create a public
release of this hotfix the WinSE group has decided to simply go with the
security update to solve this issue.

I will let you know as soon as I found out exactly how it will be
distributed.

Neal Christiansen
Microsoft File System Filter Group Lead
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[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Dana Epp
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 8:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [ntfsd] Distributing Hotfix to patch
IoCreateFileSpecifyDeviceObjectHint Support in W2K

Neal,

Has there been any news on this that you can report?

Neal Christiansen wrote:

>These are two good questions. Let me talk to our Sustained

Engineering

>group and see if we can make this directly available for download and
>redistributable.
>
>Neal Christiansen
>Microsoft File System Filter Group Lead
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>rights.
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>[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Ladislav Zezula
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>To: Windows File Systems Devs Interest List
>Subject: Re: [ntfsd] Distributing Hotfix to patch
>IoCreateFileSpecifyDeviceObjectHint Support in W2K
>
>I have additional question to it. The page mentioned in
>one of the previous postings does not contain any link
>to download. Instead of this, it advices to call MS tech support
>to retrieve he patch. Is it possible to download it at all ?
>
>L.
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You may unpack a patch using “-x” flag (I think)
and then look at ntoskrnl.exe with depends.exe tool,
if the “CreateWithHint” function is exported :-))

L.