what is the right way to
call NtXXX native API from kernel ?
thanks.
ZwXXXX
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What the hell does Zw stands for? Don’t get me wrong, I love those
letters…
Mat
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ZwXXXX
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“Zw” stands for “Zip whatever”. It was simply the next two letters to be
used in order or someone felt the lower end of the English alphabet was
getting lonely. They really mean nothing until applied as ZwXxxx for kernel
functionality.
Gary G. Little
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> What the hell does Zw stands for? Don’t get me wrong, I love those
> letters…
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> Mat
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> What the hell does Zw stands for? Don’t get me wrong, I love those
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A LONG time ago, I asked LouP (Mr. number 2 in Windows NT for quite a long
time) this question. He assured me they don’t mean anything and were chosen
precisely because they were very unlikely to ever conflict with anything.
Peter
OSR
Are you sure they’re not the initials of the original developer ?
Alberto.
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> What the hell does Zw stands for? Don’t get me wrong, I love those
> letters…
>
A LONG time ago, I asked LouP (Mr. number 2 in Windows NT for quite a long
time) this question. He assured me they don’t mean anything and were chosen
precisely because they were very unlikely to ever conflict with anything.
Peter
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Yes. I wouldn’t have answered if I wasn’t sure.
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Discussed on forums about once per 6 months 
An intentionally meaningless prefix to not clash with anything else.
Max
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> What the hell does Zw stands for? Don’t get me wrong, I love those
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That guy would have been pretty selfish if he named documented API functions
after himself… And he would have a pretty funny name too!
Mat
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> Are you sure they’re not the initials of the original developer ?
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Yes. I wouldn’t have answered if I wasn’t sure.
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Well, I can think of a few Zbigniew Wieniawski, Zoltan Wittgenstein,
Zak Wagner, Zeke Williams…
Alberto.
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That guy would have been pretty selfish if he named documented API functions
after himself… And he would have a pretty funny name too!
Mat
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> Are you sure they’re not the initials of the original developer ?
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Yes. I wouldn’t have answered if I wasn’t sure.
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