I am writing a program that will open a job object present in BaseNamedObjects namespace using OpenJobObjectA. Below is snippet of code:

 hJob = OpenJobObjectA(JOB_OBJECT_QUERY, FALSE, "\BaseNamedObjects\SAC10680");
 if (hJob == NULL) {
     fprintf(stderr, "Failed to open job object. Error code: %dn", GetLastError());
     return 1;
 }

Now, even though the job object is present(which I verify using winobj) I am not able to open the object. And getting below error:

Failed to open job object. Error code: 161

I know error 161 means path is invalid. But that’s not true!!

The code should open the job object.