NtOpenSemaphore

2OO1, 1O February

NtOpenSemaphore

NTSYSAPI 
NTSTATUS
NTAPI


NtOpenSemaphore(



  OUT PHANDLE             SemaphoreHandle,
  IN ACCESS_MASK          DesiredAccess,
  IN POBJECT_ATTRIBUTES   ObjectAttributes );

Function NtOpenSemaphore opens named Semaphore Object. This operation doesn't modify semaphore's internal counter.

SemaphoreHandle Result of call - pointer to HANDLE to Semaphore Object.

DesiredAccess Access rights, descripted in NtCreateSemaphore.

ObjectAttributes Pointer to OBJECT_ATTRIBUTES structure containing semaphore's name.

Documented by:

Tomasz Nowak

Requirements:

Library: ntdll.lib

Undocumented functions of NTDLL