SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES Type

Type SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES
  nLength As Long
  lpSecurityDescriptor As Long
  bInheritHandle As Boolean
End Type

SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES-type variables define the level and type of security protection to give an object. Security information is only used in Windows NT, so the information in this data type will usually be ignored by Windows 95, Windows 98, or other non-NT versions of Windows.

nLength
The size in bytes of the variable.
lpSecurityDescriptor
Identifies a security descriptor. A value of 0 gives the default.
bInheritHandle
Specifies whether the object's new handle should be inherited by new processes.

Used by: RegCreateKeyEx
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