How to get information about a file for programming on windows - c++

Question

In Linux, we can use the function stat() to get a file info, and use the type st.mode to judge the rights of the file before we can do some operation on it. In windows, I make a lot of attempts, but little help.
At first, I want to use the function GetSecurityInfo, but I can't get the handle argument. I did find some solutions, but they all need use fopen function which is exactly what I want to avoid. Becasue I want to not do anything substantial with the file until I can determine what permissions it has.
Then I try the GetFileSecurityA function, but useless. The following is my code, and I get an error code 998 from getlasterror
void GetFilesInfo(std::string& path)
{
char *path1 = new char[1024];
strcpy(path1, path.c_str());
SECURITY_INFORMATION FLAGS = ATTRIBUTE_SECURITY_INFORMATION;
PSECURITY_DESCRIPTOR file_security_descriptor = new char[1024];
LPDWORD minNeedWords = 0;
if(GetFileSecurityA(path1, FLAGS, file_security_descriptor, 1024, minNeedWords) == 0)
error_die("GetFileInfo");
else
std::cout << file_security_descriptor << std::endl;
}

Answer 1

The answer is as previous comments said. I answered the question for completion.
#include <Windows.h>
void main()
{
TCHAR FileName[] = {L"C:\\Users\\Path\\To\\FileName.extension" };
DWORD LengthNeeded = 0;
SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR* sp = (SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR*) HeapAlloc(GetProcessHeap(), HEAP_ZERO_MEMORY,100);
BOOL rs = GetFileSecurity(FileName, ATTRIBUTE_SECURITY_INFORMATION, sp,100,&LengthNeeded);
if (!rs)
{
DWORD e = GetLastError();
//return;
}
HeapFree(GetProcessHeap(), 0,sp);
}