SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES

typedef struct _SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES { /* sa */

DWORD nLength;

LPVOID lpSecurityDescriptor;

BOOL bInheritHandle;

} SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES;

The SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES data structure contains information about an object's security attributes.

Members

nLength

Specifies the length of this data structure. Must be set to sizeof(SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES).

lpSecurityDescriptor

Pointer to a security descriptor for the object. A security descriptor controls the sharing of an object.

This parameter should be NULL for Dos/Win32. A non-NULL value passed in Dos/Win32 is checked for validity, then ignored.

This parameter is used with NT/Win32. A value of NULL specifies that the object is assigned the default security descriptor of the calling process. A non-NULL value uses the specified security descriptor pointed to by the parameter.

bInheritHandle

Specifies whether or not the returned handle is to be inherited by a new process during process creation. A value of TRUE indicates that the new process will inherit the handle.