They were wrongly pointing to the original target once rewritten
instead of pointing to the proper target: the device.
This notably fixes opening the MountMgr device from user
mode (to perform IOCTL calls, for instance), and might
also fix various bugs dealing with global namespaces.
This might have some various effects in ReactOS~.
This fixes the bug when VidInitialize asks for different translated addresses
and VgaIsPresent always returns FALSE either because the machine does not have
VGA controller at all (e.g. 86Duino Zero), or it does have video hardware
that is not compatible with VGA standard (e.g. Original Xbox).
The problem investigated by Stanislav Motylkov. Suggested fix by Thomas Faber.
CORE-14625 CORE-16216 CORE-16222
Co-authored-by: Thomas Faber <thomas.faber@reactos.org>
CORE-16356
Therefore the ERRORLEVEL value will be correctly set in accordance on
return from the utility in cmd.exe, and conditional tests based on this
returned value will succeed as they should.
- Reserve the pipe NtControlPipe0 for the security process.
- Count regular service control pipes from 1.
- Use I_ScIsSecurityProcess to identify the security process.
- Services.exe uses the SECURITY_SERVICES_STARTED event to notify the security process that NtControlPipe0 is ready for use.
CORE-9023
FIXES:
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- Fix parsing of the multiboot options string.
NOTE: They are not yet treated in a case-insensitive manner!
- Fix a bug in ArcOpen() so that it correctly skips the first path
separator (after the adapter-controller-peripheral ARC descriptors).
The path separator can be either a backslash or a slash (both are
allowed according to the specs); they were also already handled
correctly in other parts of the code.
- Fix DissectArcPath() so as to:
* **OPTIONALLY** (and not mandatorily!) return the path part that follows
the ARC adapter-controller-peripheral elements in the ARC path;
* make it correctly handle the (yes, optional!!) partition() part in the
ARC path, for the multi(x)disk(y)rdisk(z) cases.
ENHANCEMENTS:
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- Directly retrieve the default OS entry as we enumerate them and
build their list (i.e. merge the GetDefaultOperatingSystem() helper
within InitOperatingSystemList()).
- Directly use the opened 'FreeLoader' INI section via its ID in the
different functions that need it.
- Make the custom-boot and linux loaders honour the boot options they are
supposed to support (see FREELDR.INI documentation / template).
This includes the 'BootDrive' and 'BootPartition' (alternatively the ARC
'BootPath').
This also allows them to take into account the user-specified choices in the
FreeLdr custom-boot editors.
- Modify the FreeLdr custom-boot editors so as to correctly honour
the priorities of the boot options as specified in the FREELDR.INI
documentation / template.
- Use stack trick (union of structs) to reduce stack usage in the
FreeLdr custom-boot editors, because there are strings buffers that are
used in an alternate manner.
- Extract out from the editors the LoadOperatingSystem() calls, and
move it back into OptionMenuCustomBoot(), so that when this latter
function is called there is no risk of having a stack almost full.
- When building the ARC-compatible argument vector for the loaders, add
the mandatory "SystemPartition" path. This allows the loaders to NOT
call the machine-specific MachDiskGetBootPath() later on (this data is
indeed passed to them by the boot manager part of FreeLdr).
- Improve the FsOpenFile() helper so as to make it:
* return an adequate ARC_STATUS instead of a mere uninformative BOOLEAN;
* take open options, as well as a default path (optional) that would be
prepended to the file name in case the latter is a relative one.
- Make RamDiskLoadVirtualFile() return an actual descriptive ARC_STATUS
value, and make it take an optional default path (same usage as the one
in FsOpenFile() ).
+ Remove useless NTAPI .
- UiInitialize() and TuiTextToColor(), TuiTextToFillStyle(): load or
convert named settings into corresponding values using setting table and
a tight for-loop, instead of duplicating 10x the same parameter reading
logic.
- UiInitialize(): Open the "Display" INI section just once. Remove usage
of DisplayModeText[] buffer.
- UiShowMessageBoxesInSection() and UiShowMessageBoxesInArgv(): reduce
code indentation level.
ENHANCEMENTS for NT OS loader:
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- Don't use MachDiskGetBootPath() but use instead the "SystemPartition"
value passed via the ARC argument vector by the boot manager
(+ validation checks). Use it as the "default path" when calling
FsOpenFile() or loading the ramdisk.
- Honour the FreeLdr-specific "Hal=" and "Kernel=" options by converting
them into NT standard "/HAL=" and "/KERNEL=" options in the boot
command line.
Note that if the latter ones are already present on the standard "Options="
option line, they would take precedence over those passed via the separate
"Hal=" and "Kernel=" FreeLdr-specific options.
Also add some documentation links to Geoff Chappell's website about
how the default HAL and KERNEL names are chosen depending on the
detected underlying platform on which the NT OS loader is running.