FILE_DIRECTORY_INFORMATION

2OO1, 13 April

typedef struct _FILE_DIRECTORY_INFORMATION {

  ULONG                   NextEntryOffset;
  ULONG                   FileIndex;
  LARGE_INTEGER           CreationTime;
  LARGE_INTEGER           LastAccessTime;
  LARGE_INTEGER           LastWriteTime;
  LARGE_INTEGER           ChangeTime;
  LARGE_INTEGER           EndOfFile;
  LARGE_INTEGER           AllocationSize;
  ULONG                   FileAttributes;
  ULONG                   FileNameLength;
  WCHAR                   FileName[1];

} FILE_DIRECTORY_INFORMATION, *PFILE_DIRECTORY_INFORMATION;

Structure FILE_DIRECTORY_INFORMATION is returned as a result of call NtQueryDirectoryFile with FileDirectoryInformation information class. It contains some typical informations about directory entries.

NextEntryOffset

Offset (in bytes) of next FILE_DIRECTORY_INFORMATION structure placed in result buffer. If there's no more entries, NextEntryOffset is set to zero.

FileIndex

File index value, or zero, if directory indexing is not avaiable.

CreationTime

Time of object creation;

LastAccessTime

Last access time. Means time when last open operation was performed.

LastWriteTime

Time of last write data.

ChangeTime

Time of last change.

EndOfFile

Specify length of file, in bytes.

AllocationSize

Specify real size of file on device. It must be equal or greater to EndOfFile member.

FileAttributes

Attributes of file.

FileNameLength

Length of FileName array, in bytes.

FileName[1]

UNICODE string specifing file name.

Documented by:

Tomasz Nowak

Bo Branten

Requirements:

Library: ntdll.lib

Undocumented functions of NTDLL