Re: 8.3 .4 + Vista + MingW + initdb = ACCESS_DENIED

Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> Hmm.  Now that you mention it, didn't we solve a similar problem by
> exploiting the behavior where CreateProcess creates a process but
> doesn't start it running?  I'm envisioning
> 
>     * Create child process in suspended state
>     * Assign it ownership of a lock (can we do that?)
>     * Set it running
> 

Not sure, but the SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES argument to CreateFile has a 
bInheritHandle member that specifies whether a child process can inherit 
the fiel HANDLE.  I'm not sure if that would include locks on the file 
HANDLE.

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