>From: Peter Wieland [mailto:xxxxx@windows.microsoft.com]
one point of caution - a user-mode application can try to open your
device if it has a name, regardless of whether you create a symbolic
link in \DosDevices or not.
I think of the case of Device Interfaces where there’s no symbolic link
involved and the device object can be reached from user mode. Or… do
device interfaces use symbolic link internally?
But how can a user-mode application open a device object otherwise? You’ve
mentioned the Win32 API: I guess you were referring to CreateFile(). What
do you mean by NT API? Undocumented functions? I’m a little bit confused.
Mat