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Re: [PATCH] improve performance of stat() operations (e.g. ls -lR )
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 08:38:32PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:43:54PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
>> In the process of researching this, I discovered that NT has a mechanism
>> for determining a filename from an open handle so I'm trying to work
>> that into dtable.cc.
>
>Interesting. Could you provide some link? MSDN or so?
It's in the Native API reference. NtQueryObject or NtQueryInformationFile.
I had something working nicely with NtQueryInformationFile but then found out
that it wasn't actually returning drive info. So, the common google wisdom
was that NtQueryObject should be used instead. I assume that will probably
return something like \device\whatever\dir\foo, though.
The Windows 9x stuff mentions the use of VXDs although there is a hint that
maybe that's not necessary.
cgf