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SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES (Structures)
 
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Summary
The SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES structure contains the security descriptor for an object and specifies whether the handle retrieved by specifying this structure is inheritable. This structure provides security settings for objects created by various functions, such as CreateFile, CreatePipe, CreateProcess, or RegCreateKeyEx.
Summary

C# Definition:

[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
public struct SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES
public class SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES
{
    public int nLength;
    public unsafe byte* lpSecurityDescriptor;
    public int bInheritHandle;
}

C# Definition:

[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
public struct SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES
{
    public int nLength;
    public IntPtr lpSecurityDescriptor;
    public int bInheritHandle;
}

VB Definition:

<StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)> _
Structure SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES
   Public nLength As Integer
   Public lpSecurityDescriptor As IntPtr
   Public bInheritHandle As Integer
End Structure

User-Defined Field Types:

None.

Notes:

None.

Sample Code - C# - sivakumar.keerthi

using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Security.AccessControl;

namespace WindowsApplication1
{
    [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
    public struct SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES
    {
        public int nLength;
        public IntPtr lpSecurityDescriptor;
        public int bInheritHandle;
    }

    public class Form1 : System.Windows.Forms.Form
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Required designer variable.
        /// </summary>
        [DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
        static extern bool CreateDirectory(string lpPathName, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpSecurityAttributes);        
        private System.ComponentModel.Container components = null;

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Clean up any resources being used.
        /// </summary>
        protected override void Dispose( bool disposing )
        {
            if( disposing )
            {
                if (components != null)
                {
                    components.Dispose();
                }
            }
            base.Dispose( disposing );
        }

        #region Windows Form Designer generated code
        /// <summary>
        /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
        /// the contents of this method with the code editor.
        /// </summary>
        private void InitializeComponent()
        {
            this.SuspendLayout();
            //
            // Form1
            //
            this.AutoScaleBaseSize = new System.Drawing.Size(5, 13);
            this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(528, 266);
            this.Name = "Form1";
            this.Text = "Form1";
            this.Load += new System.EventHandler(this.Form1_Load);
            this.ResumeLayout(false);

        }
        #endregion

        /// <summary>
        /// The main entry point for the application.
        /// </summary>
        [STAThread]
        static void Main()
        {

            Application.Run(new Form1());
        }

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
            SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpSecurityAttributes = new SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES();
            DirectorySecurity security = new DirectorySecurity();
            lpSecurityAttributes.nLength = Marshal.SizeOf(lpSecurityAttributes);
            byte[] src = security.GetSecurityDescriptorBinaryForm();
            IntPtr dest = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(src.Length);
            Marshal.Copy(src, 0, dest, src.Length);
            lpSecurityAttributes.lpSecurityDescriptor = dest;
            string path = @"C:\Test";
            CreateDirectory(path, lpSecurityAttributes);
        }
    }
}

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