Results of GetFileInformationByHandle() Under Win32s

Last reviewed: January 6, 1997
Article ID: Q123813

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Win32s versions 1.30, 1.30a, 1.30c

The GetFileInformationByHandle() function returns information about the given file in a structure of type BY_HANDLE_FILE_INFORMATION.

The following are the BY_HANDLE_FILE_INFORMATION structure fields and the values they contain under Win32s:

   dwFileAttributes - Always 0 in version 1.2 (A bug that has been fixed.)
   ftCreationTime - Always 0. (An MS-DOS file system limitation.)
   ftLastAccessTime  - Always 0. (An MS-DOS file system limitation.)
   ftLastWriteTime - Correct value.
   dwVolumeSerialNumber - Always 0. (A Win32s limitation.)
   nFileSizeHigh - Correct value.
   nFileSizeLow - Correct value.
   nNumberOfLinks - Always 1.
   nFileIndexHigh - Always 0. (A Win32s limitation.)
   nFileIndexLow - Always 0. (A Win32s limitation.)

KBCategory: kbprg
KBSubcategory: W32s
Additional reference words: 1.30 1.30a 1.30c docerror docbug

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Last reviewed: January 6, 1997
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