Undocumented functions of NTDLL

2OO1, 1O February


Gridstore - NonStop Storage

NtQuerySemaphore
NtQuerySemaphore

NTSYSAPI 
NTSTATUS
NTAPI

NtQuerySemaphore(


  IN HANDLE               SemaphoreHandle,
  IN SEMAPHORE_INFORMATION_CLASS SemaphoreInformationClass,
  OUT PVOID               SemaphoreInformation,
  IN ULONG                SemaphoreInformationLength,
  OUT PULONG              ReturnLength OPTIONAL );



Function NtQuerySemaphore retrieve semaphore's parameters (see SEMAPHORE_BASIC_INFORMATION).


  • SemaphoreHandle
    •     HANDLE to Semaphore Object opened with SEMAPHORE_QUERY_STATE access.
  • SemaphoreInformationClass
    •     Information class descripted in SEMAPHORE_INFORMATION_CLASS section.
  • SemaphoreInformation
    •     Pointer to user's allocated buffer for result data.
  • SemaphoreInformationLength
    •     Size of SemaphoreInformation buffer, in bytes.
  • ReturnLength
    •     Optionally returns required buffer size.


    Documented by:
    Tomasz Nowak



    Requirements:
    Library: ntdll.lib


    See also:
    NtCreateSemaphore
    NtOpenSemaphore
    SEMAPHORE_BASIC_INFORMATION
    SEMAPHORE_INFORMATION_CLASS