Inside NT's Asynchronous Procedure Call
By Albert Almeida, November 01, 2002
Asynchronous Procedure Calls (APCs) are a fundamental building block in NT's asynchronous processing architecture. Learn how NT processes APCs and documents the exported NT functions available to device driver writers to use APCs in their programs.
November 2002/Inside NT's Asynchronous Procedure Call
Listing 2 Declaration for KeInitializeApc and KAPC_ENVIRONMENT
NTKERNELAPI
VOID
KeInitializeApc (
IN PRKAPC Apc,
IN PKTHREAD Thread,
IN KAPC_ENVIRONMENT Environment,
IN PKKERNEL_ROUTINE KernelRoutine,
IN PKRUNDOWN_ROUTINE RundownRoutine OPTIONAL,
IN PKNORMAL_ROUTINE NormalRoutine OPTIONAL,
IN KPROCESSOR_MODE ApcMode,
IN PVOID NormalContext
);
typedef enum _KAPC_ENVIRONMENT {
OriginalApcEnvironment,
AttachedApcEnvironment,
CurrentApcEnvironment
} KAPC_ENVIRONMENT;
