Re: Sharing a semaphore between users

From:

"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:08:55 -0700

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"Phil" <pbruyant@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:d75ac4da-0cf1-494b-aee5-6dc5b75b75e9@26g2000hsk.googlegroups.com...

David,
It does help !! I've implemented your code, and it worked :)
Don't know what's wrong with my code, but yours work. I can share a
semaphore between users.
Thank you for sharing your expertise,
Phil

Awesome Phil, glad it's working. I think mine works because it enables
Everyone to use the semaphore. Other than everyone, it's confusing to know
what groups a resource has access to, so it's easier to enable Everyone.
That's my admittedly stupid view of security, but it's not my fault they
made it so hard for mere mortals to understand. Whether they set out to do
it or not, they designed a system where security is achieved through
obfuscation... and because it's so hard to use, actually makes the system
less secure since everyone avoids it like the plague. You can probably
clean up the code quite a bit. For example, I don't think LocalAlloc() is
needed.

-- David