Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 10:37:35 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Serious performance problems (malloc related?) Message-ID: <20050603143735.GC30228@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3D848382FB72E249812901444C6BDB1D03E04FD3@exchange.timesys.com> <429F7D9D.7020808@exmsft.com> <200506022357.37020.ralf.habacker@freenet.de> <20050603011323.GA10867@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <42A02B68.4080707@exmsft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42A02B68.4080707@exmsft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 12:05:28PM +0200, Keith Moore wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> Keith, you don't have a complete reference for the Nt functions do you? > >For the most part, using the APIs is pretty straight-forward if you have >the required prototypes and structure definitions. With the possible >exception of NtCreateProcess(), there is not a lot of "magic" involved. >The MinGW project has done a lot of good work in this area. There also >a ton of useful information in the MS DDK. The DDK is, obviously, >focused on kernel-mode drivers, but much of the information is applicable >to user-mode apps. > >So, unfortunately, I don't have a complete reference, but there are >enough "islands of information" around for us to piece together >everything we need. I don't know what percentage of the Nt* stuff in the w32api headers came from Corinna and me but at least some of it did. Some also came from ReactOS and maybe some came from Wine. As I have mentioned, Cygwin already uses some calls but there are some Nt calls where the arguments are not straightforward. I know that Corinna had a problem recently trying to find more info on some function but I don't recall which it was. When we can, we use google or the "Nebbit book" to piece together what is needed. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/