FILE_FULL_EA_INFORMATION

2OO1, 25 January

typedef struct _FILE_FULL_EA_INFORMATION {

  ULONG                   NextEntryOffset;
  BYTE                    Flags;
  BYTE                    EaNameLength;
  USHORT                  EaValueLength;
  CHAR                    EaName[1];

} FILE_FULL_EA_INFORMATION, *PFILE_FULL_EA_INFORMATION;

Structure FILE_FULL_EA_INFORMATION is used for get or store Extended Attributes for NTFS files and directories. Extended Attributes (EA) is a list of pair Name-Value. Name is capitalised ASCII string up to 256 characters long. Value is any data and can be up to 65536 bytes long.
Structure can be used in a call to NtCreateFile and NtSetEaFile, or as a result of call NtQueryEaFile.

NextEntryOffset

Offset for next FILE_FULL_EA_INFORMATION structure in buffer, relative to currently used structure. If current structure is last one in buffer, this field has value 0.

Flags

- ???

EaNameLength

Length of EA name, in bytes (without leading zero).

EaValueLength

Length of EA value, in bytes (without leading zero).

EaName[1]

User's allocated buffer contains ASCIIZ name and value. ASCII value must be finished by zero.

Structure FILE_FULL_EA_INFORMATION is also defined in Win2000 DDK.

Documented by:

Tomasz Nowak

Bo Branten

Requirements:

Library: ntdll.lib

Undocumented functions of NTDLL

NextEntryOffset

Flags

EaNameLength

EaValueLength

EaName[1]