reactos/doc/psmgr.texi

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   4 @settitle Process Manager Design and Implementation
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   9 This document describes the ReactOS process manager design and implementation
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  12 @titlepage
  13 @title Process Manager Design and Implementation
  14 @author David Welch <david.welch@seh.ox.ac.uk>
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  17 Copyright @copyright{} 1999 David Welch
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  19
  20 @node Top, Overview, , (dir)
  21 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
  22
  23 @ifinfo
  24 This document describes the design and implementation of the reactos process
  25 manager
  26 @end ifinfo
  27
  28 @menu
  29 * Overview:: Overview of this document
  30 * External Interfaces:: External Interfaces
  31 * Data Structures:: Data Structures
  32 * Concept Index:: This index has two entries
  33 @end menu
  34
  35 @node Overview, External Interfaces, top, top
  36 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
  37 @chapter Overview
  38
  39 This document describes the design and implementation of the ReactOS process
  40 manager. ReactOS is a GPLed operating system that attempts to be compatible
  41 with Windows NT, for more information see @uref{http://www.reactos.com}.
  42
  43 @node External Interfaces, Data Structures, Overview, top
  44 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
  45 @chapter External Interfaces
  46
  47 This chapter describes the external interfaces provided by the process
  48 manager both to user-mode and to the rest of the kernel.
  49
  50 @menu
  51 * NtCreateProcess:: Creates a new process
  52 @end menu
  53
  54 @node NtCreateProcess, , , External Interfaces
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  57 @deftypefn Function NTSTATUS NtCreateProcess
  58
  59 The parameters are
  60 @itemize @bullet
  61 @item
  62 HANDLE ProcessHandle: Received a handle for the created process on return.
  63 @item
  64 ACCESS_MASK DesiredAccess: Specifies the requested types of access to
  65 the created process.
  66 @item
  67 POBJECT_ATTRIBUTES ObjectAttributes: Specifies various attributes for the
  68 created process.
  69 @item
  70 HANDLE ParentProcessHandle: Specifies the parent process for the created
  71 process.
  72 @item
  73 BOOLEAN InheritObjectTable: True if the new process such inherit its parent's
  74 handles.
  75 @item
  76 HANDLE SectionHandle: If this parameter is NULL then the new process's
  77 address space will be a copy of its parent's. Otherwise the new process's
  78 address space will contain a mapping of the section pointed to by this
  79 handle and NTDLL.
  80 @item
  81 HANDLE DebugPort: Specifies a handle that will receive debug messages
  82 associated with this process.
  83 @item
  84 HANDLE ExceptionPort: Specifies a handle that will receive exception messages
  85 associated with this process.
  86 @end itemize
  87
  88 The return value is either STATUS_SUCCESS or a value indicating the reason
  89 by failure.
  90 @end deftypefn
  91
  92 @node Data Structures, Concept Index, External Interfaces, top
  93 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
  94 @chapter Data Structures
  95
  96 @node Concept Index, ,Data Structures, Top
  97 @unnumbered Concept Index
  98 @printindex cp
  99 @contents
 100 @bye