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Books : Computing & Internet : Web Development : Web Administration : Microsoft Windows : Microsoft Windows : Windows 2000
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Underneath the hood, how does Windows 2000 really work? Windows NT/2000 Native API Reference provides a thorough listing of all available internal or "native" API calls, many of them undocumented. For any advanced C/C++ programmer who writes Win32 device drivers or system utilities, this book will be an indispensable resource to some truly impossible-to-find information.The book first explains what native APIs are and what they are good for. Native APIs (which all begin with the "Nt" or "Zw" prefixes) run closer to the operating system (in kernel mode) so they are perfect for those who write device drivers, debuggers, profilers or other system utilities.
This book lists several hundred native APIs, the C structures they use, and the Win32 calls that invoke them. As a reference, this text is a model of clarity, with each function clearly documented and explained. APIs are grouped by functionality, from finding system information, to processes and threads, to memory management, file I/O and other categories. One standout here is the author's sample code to poll the system for low-level information, which mimics developer utilities that let you view process and thread information. Other short examples include techniques for accessing debugging, profiling and exception information.
For programmer's who write device-drivers, this title also includes the plug-and-play and power management APIs used by today's Windows. Interesting appendices include a guide to the way the Win32 NTFS file system organises data on disks, along with sample code to access--and even decompress--this information.
Whether you want to write device drivers or system utilities, or just want to learn more about the operating system, this in-depth title takes the cover off Windows 2000 and looks inside with a comprehensive guide to its internal functions. --Richard Dragan, amazon.com
Topics covered: Native API overview, native API vs. Win32 API, system information and control, APIs for objects, object directories and symbolic links, virtual memory, sections for memory-mapped files, threads, processes, building ToolHelp utilities with native APIs, Windows 2000 API for jobs, tokens, working with synchronisation objects, execution profiling, ports and local procedure calls (LPCs), debugging support with LPCs, opening, reading and writing files, NTFS disk structures, registry keys, security and auditing, plug-and-play and power management, miscellaneous native APIs, exception and debugging.
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Too many Linux books shoot themselves in the foot, either by explaining Linux in terms that can't be understood without a grounding in some other Unix flavour or by expecting the reader to blindly follow instructions and be satisfied at their completion. Linux for Windows NT/2000 Administrators advertises itself as a "secret decoder ring", meaning it explains Linux phenomena in Windows terms. For example, the book specifies that daemons are to Linux what services are to Windows NT/2000. It may not make any sense to people unfamiliar with either environment, but it's perfectly clear to those who know Windows. This sort of approach, which reflects knowledge of the audience as well as of the subject matter, is typical of accomplished author Mark Minasi.In large part, this book comes across as "Linux for the Reader with a Clue". Minasi enumerates the tasks that system administrators typically have to carry out. Examples of these include installing software and manipulating the privileges of users and groups. It explains how to do those jobs in various Linux environments, addressing itself to Windows experts who will need a bit of background but don't require babying. Minasi doesn't explain why you would want to install applications, but rather explicitly the mechanics of installing RPM packages and tarballed source code. He states flatly that most people will be happy with a precompiled kernel--that's what works for Windows, after all--but shows how to build your own anyway. The book's full of that kind of material. This fact-rich text is a pleasure to read and learn from. --David Wall