Collectives™ on Stack Overflow
Find centralized, trusted content and collaborate around the technologies you use most.
Learn more about Collectives
Teams
Q&A for work
Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search.
Learn more about Teams
@Alex K.: Small remark:
NtFsControlFile
is documented in
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff566462(v=VS.85).aspx
. Kernel mode application should use
ZwFsControlFile
function and user mode application can use
NtFsControlFile
.
@vedang: From you question I would assume that you don't a developer of kernel mode driver. So I will strictly recommend you to use
only
DeviceIoControl
to send
FSCTL_XXX
codes
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364230(v=VS.85).aspx
.
Only if you plan to write an application which don't use Win32 subsystem and use NT native subsystem only like a small checkdisk application or disk defragmentation application which run at the beginning of the windows start (see session manager registry key) than you will have advantage in using of
NtFsControlFile
. In all cases of usual work you should use only
DeviceIoControl
.
Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow!
-
Please be sure to
answer the question
. Provide details and share your research!
But
avoid
…
-
Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
-
Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
To learn more, see our
tips on writing great answers
.
