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"dhoke" <dhoke.nojunk@east-shore.com> wrote in message 
news:473c4335$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

> How does one make straightforward use of SetNamedSecurityInfo()
> in a module that includes vcl.h?

Just call it like any other function.

> Compiling the above produces:
> Error E2015 C:\Program Files\Borland\BDS\4.0\Include\aclapi.h 103:
> Ambiguity between 'PACCESS_MASK' and 'Windows::PACCESS_MASK'

PACCESS_MASK has nothing to do with SetNamedSecurityInfo().  This is a 
completely different issue.

Did you look at line 103 yet?  The compiler is complaining about 
GetEffectiveRightsFromAcl(), which has a PACCESS_MASK parameter.

Like I told you the other day, PACCESS_MASK is declared in two separate 
namespaces and your project is including both of them - the global namespace 
and the "Windows" namespace.  Since the function declaration does not 
qualify which namespace to use, the compiler does not know which declaration 
of PACCESS_MASK to use, which is exactly what the error message is telling 
you.

This is due to a bug in the Windows.pas source file of the VCL. 
Borland/CodGear is not defining PACCESS_MASK with the EXTERNALSYM flag so 
the Delphi compiler will not re-declare PACCESS_MASK when generating the 
Windows.hpp file.  Since you are not allowed to recompile the VCL, you have 
two choices:

1) edit Windows.hpp to remove/comment the offending declaration of 
PACCESS_MASK

    // RLebeau: comment this out
    // typedef unsigned *PACCESS_MASK;

2) edit aclapi.h to qualify the PACCESS_MASK parameter of 
GetEffectiveRightsFromAcl() with the global namespace:

    WINADVAPI
    DWORD
    WINAPI
    GetEffectiveRightsFromAclA(
        IN  PACL          pacl,
        IN  PTRUSTEE_A    pTrustee,
        OUT ::PACCESS_MASK  pAccessRights // <-- RLebeau: qualified
    );
    WINADVAPI
    DWORD
    WINAPI
    GetEffectiveRightsFromAclW(
        IN  PACL          pacl,
        IN  PTRUSTEE_W    pTrustee,
        OUT ::PACCESS_MASK  pAccessRights // <-- RLebeau: qualified
    );

#1 is technically the best way to go, but if you go with #2 then you will 
have to make the same change for GetAuditedPermissionsFromAcl() as well.


Gambit