How to determin that thread context is arbitrary or non-arbitray?

OSR_Community_User · April 29, 2002, 9:11am

Hi:
In a kernel-mode driver,how to determin
whether Its thread context is arbitray or not when a functio is called?

Thanks
Paul

OSR_Community_User · April 29, 2002, 9:59am

just top level drivers are ensured to run in the context of the thread they
are called by (like FSDs or their filters).

If you want to be sure that your function is called in a specific thread
context, you can use APCs. You find the prototypes for APC functions in
ntddk.h

johnny

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Hi:
In a kernel-mode driver,how to determin
whether Its thread context is arbitray or not when a functio is called?

Thanks
Paul