2OOO, 12 October
NtCreateSection
NtCreateSection
NTSYSAPI 
NTSTATUS
NTAPI
NtCreateSection(
  OUT PHANDLE             SectionHandle,
  IN ULONG                DesiredAccess,
  IN POBJECT_ATTRIBUTES   ObjectAttributes OPTIONAL,
  IN PLARGE_INTEGER       MaximumSize OPTIONAL,
  IN ULONG                PageAttributess,
  IN ULONG                SectionAttributes,
  IN HANDLE               FileHandle OPTIONAL );
Function NtCreateSection creates Section Object
(virtual memory block with associated file).
- SectionHandle     Result of call -
HANDLE to Section Object.
 
- DesiredAccess     Access mask. Can be
combination of:
 
- SECTION_QUERY
 
- SECTION_MAP_WRITE
 
- SECTION_MAP_READ
 
- SECTION_MAP_EXECUTE
 
- SECTION_EXTEND_SIZE
 
- SECTION_ALL_ACCESS
 
- ObjectAttributes     Pointer to
OBJECT_ATTRIBUTES structure contains section name, in Object
Namespace format.
 
- MaximumSize     Optionally define maximum
size of section. Must be defined when caller create section based
on system PageFile.
 
- PageAttributess     Can be one or
combination of:
 
- PAGE_NOACCESS
 
- PAGE_READONLY
 
- PAGE_READWRITE
 
- PAGE_WRITECOPY
 
- PAGE_EXECUTE
 
- PAGE_EXECUTE_READ
 
- PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE
 
- PAGE_EXECUTE_WRITECOPY
 
- PAGE_GUARD
 
- PAGE_NOCACHE
 
- PAGE_WRITECOMBINE
 
- SectionAttributes     Can be one or
combination of:
 
- SEC_FILE
 
- SEC_IMAGE
 
- SEC_RESERVE
 
- SEC_COMMIT
 
- SEC_NOCACHE
 
- FileHandle     Optionally HANDLE to
File Object opened with proper access.
- Documented by:
 
- Tomasz Nowak
 
 
 
Requirements:
- Library: ntdll.lib
 
See also:
- 
NtCreateFile
 
- 
NtExtendSection
 
- 
NtFlushVirtualMemory
 
- 
NtMapViewOfSection
 
- 
NtOpenFile
 
- 
NtOpenSection
 
- 
NtQuerySection