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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions generation/WinSDK/Partitions/WinProg/settings.rsp
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Expand Up @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ _THREADINFOCLASS
_UNICODE_STRING
NtClose
NtCreateFile
NtCreateNamedPipeFile
NtDeviceIoControlFile
NtNotifyChangeMultipleKeys
NtOpenFile
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28 changes: 24 additions & 4 deletions generation/WinSDK/RecompiledIdlHeaders/um/winternl.h
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Expand Up @@ -450,10 +450,7 @@ NtClose (
IN HANDLE Handle
);

//
// use the Win32 API instead
// CreateFile
//

__kernel_entry NTSTATUS
NTAPI
NtCreateFile (
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IN ULONG OpenOptions
);

//
// use the Win32 API instead
// CreateNamedPipeA
//
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__kernel_entry NTSTATUS
NTAPI
NtCreateNamedPipeFile(
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Won't this file get clobbered the next time we run UpdateSDK with whatever is really in the SDK?

is this function definition available in a Windows SDK header that we could use / include instead?

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Docs say it lives in ntioapi.h which isn't public. Agree, we should minimally move it to a new header (e.g., \generation\WinSDK\AdditionalHeaders\ntioapi.h)

OUT PHANDLE FileHandle,
IN ULONG DesiredAccess,
IN POBJECT_ATTRIBUTES ObjectAttributes,
OUT PIO_STATUS_BLOCK IoStatusBlock,
IN ULONG ShareAccess,
IN ULONG CreateDisposition,
IN ULONG CreateOptions,
IN ULONG NamedPipeType,
IN ULONG ReadMode,
IN ULONG CompletionMode,
IN ULONG MaximumInstances,
IN ULONG InboundQuota,
IN ULONG OutboundQuota,
IN PLARGE_INTEGER DefaultTimeout OPTIONAL
);

//
// use the Win32 API instead
// N/A
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