A handle permissions mask has a size of 32 bits and consists of a general part and a specialized part. The general part describes the general rights that are not specific to any particular resource (the flags of these rights are defined in the header file sysroot-*-kos/include/services/ocap.h from the KasperskyOS SDK). For example, the general part contains the OCAP_HANDLE_TRANSFER flag, which defines the permission to transfer the handle. The specialized part describes the rights that are specific to the particular user resource or system resource. The flags of the specialized part's permissions for system resources are defined in the ocap.h header file. The structure of the specialized part for user resources is defined by the resource provider by using the OCAP_HANDLE_SPEC() macro that is defined in the ocap.h header file. The resource provider must export the public header files describing the flags of the specialized part.
When the handle of a system resource is created, the permissions mask is defined by the KasperskyOS kernel, which applies permissions masks from the ocap.h header file. It applies permissions masks with names such as OCAP_*_FULL (for example, OCAP_IOPORT_FULL, OCAP_TASK_FULL, OCAP_FILE_FULL) and OCAP_IPC_* (for example, OCAP_IPC_SERVER, OCAP_IPC_LISTENER, OCAP_IPC_CLIENT).
When the handle of a user resource is created, the permissions mask is defined by the user.
When a handle is transferred, the permissions mask is defined by the user but the transferred access rights cannot be elevated above the access rights of the process.
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