windows system programming week 3 and 4
by canderson
More Notes!
Handles
Sharing Objects
- A handle is private to its containing process
- Sometimes and object needs to be shared with another process
- Can share using:
- Process handle inheritance
- create a child process
- Open an object by name
- pretty simple
- anyone can use the name though…
- Process handle inheritance
Object Names and Sessions
You can cause a handle to be available to all sessions by prepending Global\ to the object name.
…i’ll need to take some better notes.
Processes
Process Creation
Default DLL Search Paths
It’s the same logic that’s used by the LoadLibrary API
* Known DLLs
* Global object
* Directory of the executable
* The System directory
* GetSystemDirectory
* Windows directory
* GetWindowsDirectory
* Current directory of the process
* Directories specified by the PATH env variable