On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 at 07:01, Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > On 2024-04-21 17:24, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 at 05:37, Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> > > wrote: > >>> 2. If I have Administrator rights, is there a way in /proc where I can > >>> /bin/ls -la or /bin/find -ls all those DOS namespaces and soft links > >>> to the real devices? > >> > >> Cygwin exposes these MS Windows Executive Object Manager subsystem resource > >> objects under /proc/sys/ and object namespaces are per session under > >> /proc/sys/Sessions/ you have e.g. > > >> $ ls -glo /proc/sys/Sessions/BNOLINKS/ > >> total 0 > >> lr--r--r-- 1 0 Apr 19 21:23 0 -> /proc/sys/BaseNamedObjects > >> lr--r--r-- 1 0 Apr 19 21:23 1 -> /proc/sys/Sessions/1/BaseNamedObjects > >> > >> so each session has its own set of BaseNamedObjects, which you can list > >> with > >> appropriate permissions, or using a tree browser. > > > Now where does the "1" in /proc/sys/Sessions/1/BaseNamedObjects come > > from? Is there a Cygwin or Win32 API for that? > > It's the MS Windows session number for the first user session. > You can access them using Cygwin or MS Windows directory lookups or tree > browsers, as I said. > Search microsoft.com for Windows sessions for details about MS Windows APIs.
Windows has multiple session apis (terminal, logon, ...), which is used for the DOS namespace? > >> Under MS Windows you can use Sysinternals WinObj64 to browse the hierarchy > >> and > >> objects. > > > > What is that? > > If you do not yet know that, perhaps you should not yet be digging into these > MS > Windows Executive subsystem objects. > > Some of these questions seem very abstract - are these academic questions or > projects? Building knowledge, learning, and debugging actual code. Dan -- Dan Shelton - Cluster Specialist Win/Lin/Bsd -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
