[ros-dev] Re: [ros-svn] [arty] 13483: Patch to fix NtCreateSempahore, in the case where the initial lookup

[art yerkes]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:18:05 +0100
Thomas Weidenmueller <w3seek at reactos.com> wrote:

> The previous version I wrote just had one small bug, it checked if 
> ObCreateObject failed to continue initialization and handle creation 
> instead of checking if it succeeded. I'm going to revert this version of 
> NtCreateSemaphore as it introduces even more bugs and adds behavior 
> neither documented nor reproducable. I guess in case an application 
> failed due to this function it was because of the fact that the function 
> succeeded and didn't return a handle to a semaphore object even though 
> one was created.

Well it is a bit unkind to make a new semaphore and not return the handle
to it.  Thanks for fixing it the right way.
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