If we're going to try exception handling then I suppose that CreateToolhelp32Snapshot
could be wrapped in a handler as well... although I'd still be worried that some
internal bit of Windows could be left in a state as a result of the exception.
At 14:40 08/08/03 -0400, you wrote:
In case
At 11:28 11/08/03 +0200, you wrote:
Hi,
to make things clear, how to check if a Win32 exe is currently running
as a NT service:
1.) Check if the SID (security ID) of the current process is S-1-5-18,
i.e. the so called LOCALSYSTEM account. This changes if you configure
your service (in the
inclination is to comment out or otherwise disable the whole of the ToolHelp code
on the Windows 2003 Server platform, since the Crypt... functions should have produced
pretty good randomness all by themselves; but I'd welcome anyone's comments.
- Martin Kochanski
I'll second that. OpenSSL works excellently in isolation, but when you come to use it
in a context in which there are *already* keys and certificate stores (eg. CAPI) it
would be excellent to be able to access those directly, so that our software has the
same familiar quirks as Microsoft's,
