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From: "dave porter" <porter@zultranet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode
Subject: Re: ZwCreateFile problem
Date: 3 Oct 1997 17:01:05 GMT
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You need to specify the correct path for the file,
in terms that NT can understand.

In NT, files have real names like
	\Device\HardDisk0\Partition1\winnt\foo.bar

If you're wedded to the DOS worldview, you can use
the ?? symlink which maps DOS drive letters into
the NT namespace.  The above might then look like:

	\??\C:\winnt\foo.bar

In former versions, "??" was spelled "DosDevices".

There still is a "DosDevices", but that's really there
for back-compatibility.

For Win32 file access, the Win32 subsystem sticks
a \??\ on the front of the path for you.

dave
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vasquezj@getntds.com wrote in article
<343183e8.63879473@news.connectnet.com>...
> I followed the sample program Zwcreate.c in the DDK and was able to
> open a file located in "\\SystemRoot\\System32\\Drivers\\"
> However, if a copy the file into the root dir  or any other directory,
> I get an error form Zwcreate (STATUS_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND).
> 
> Can I open another file in a different directory besides
> "\\SystemRoot\\System32\\Drivers"? If so, how?
> 
> John Vasquez
> 
> 
>