Re: LUA 4.x - filesystem access limit?

[Erik Hougaard <erik@...>]

Rob Kendrick wrote:

> There's no simple way of doing this.  Does Windows have a call to find
> the canonical path and leaf name of a path you give it?  If it does,
> making use of that and then comparing it to the directory you want to
> keep the script contained in may be the easiest way.
>
> Does Windows have symlinks, or similar concepts?  If not, then you're
> job's a little easier too :)
>
>  
As I was saying earlier, use the ACL information from the Windows 
filesystem.. Its there and its good.. CreateFile (win32 for open/create 
almost anything) can be supplied with security information so you can 
control access.. Simply change the open in liolib.c to use CreateFile.

/Erik

p.s. "Simply" is a relative term- It may need some digging in MSDN  :-)