Is it just me, or are there always like 10 people that all have the same
problem. Or, is it the same 1-2 people that are using 10 different
email addy’s?
Coincidence, or is this worse than cross-posting? This is the second or
third duplicate question in the past 24 hours about the same damn
thing using different emails. (tweaking filespy to work with
redirectors). I’ve noticed this a lot lately, same question, different
people…
m.
Don Burn wrote:
Go read the Filespy source, you will see that between 2000 and XP the
approach for detecting and attaching to volumes changed.
hi matt,
I am sure one of those 10 people is me…well, all i can say is most
newbies either start with filemon or filespy…
best,
amitr0
Only the thieves start with filemon. That is very old code that uses
techniques appropriate for development machines but not for production. It
is copyrighted code that may not be used without paying for a license. If
you pay for the license you get the latest sources which have many fixes. I
like to use miniSpy from the latest IFS Kit for my playing around trying new
things. Mini-filters ROCK! All your problems with ‘whose on first’ and the
many minor variations in various IRPs have been solved by Microsoft and
given to your driver on a silver platter. It handles attaching to each file
system too which can be a bear for some of the fun stuff out there. There
is one vendor that has old drivers frequently still in use that has many
problems with mounting. I say let Microsoft worry about those problems.
“amitr0” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntfsd…
> hi matt,
> I am sure one of those 10 people is me…well, all i can say is most
> newbies either start with filemon or filespy…
> best,
> amitr0
I’ll have to echo David’s comments here - mini-filters rock. I have just
completed implementation of a mini-filter (my first), and while it’s not a
trivial task, it is significantly simpler than any other kind of
implementation you might do around file systems (and I’ve done all the
things you might do around file system implementation at one time or another
in the past).
Newbies in this world should be starting with mini-filters. You’ll learn a
lot more of interest quickly and be productive much faster.
…dave
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Only the thieves start with filemon. That is very old code that uses
techniques appropriate for development machines but not for production. It
is copyrighted code that may not be used without paying for a license. If
you pay for the license you get the latest sources which have many fixes. I
like to use miniSpy from the latest IFS Kit for my playing around trying new
things. Mini-filters ROCK! All your problems with ‘whose on first’ and the
many minor variations in various IRPs have been solved by Microsoft and
given to your driver on a silver platter. It handles attaching to each file
system too which can be a bear for some of the fun stuff out there. There
is one vendor that has old drivers frequently still in use that has many
problems with mounting. I say let Microsoft worry about those problems.
“amitr0” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntfsd…
> hi matt,
> I am sure one of those 10 people is me…well, all i can say is most
> newbies either start with filemon or filespy…
> best,
> amitr0
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> I am sure one of those 10 people is me…well, all i can say
is most newbies either start with filemon or filespy…
… and this is the problem. The newbies should start with book
or DDK/IFS documentation.
L.
> I am sure one of those 10 people is me…well, all i can say
is most newbies either start with filemon or filespy…
As others have said, this is a bad idea. Not to mention the fact that newbies should do a LITTLE research (google?), check the FAQ, and then CAREFULLY SEARCH THE ARCHIVE before posting.
That’d eliminate a lot of the monotonous, repetitive, questions that we see here. But, apparently, even searching the archives is too much trouble for some folks.
Peter
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