Chapter 3 -- System Mechanisms

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Chapter 3

Microsoft Windows 2000 provides several base mechanisms that kernel-mode components such as the executive, the kernel, and device drivers use. This chapter explains the following system mechanisms and describes how they are used:

  • Trap dispatching, including interrupts, deferred procedure calls (DPCs), asynchronous procedure calls (APCs), exception dispatching, and system service dispatching
  • The executive object manager
  • Synchronization, including spinlocks, kernel dispatcher objects, and how waits are implemented
  • System worker threads
  • Miscellaneous mechanisms such as Windows 2000 global flags
  • Local procedure calls (LPCs)


Inside Microsoft Windows 2000
Inside Microsoft Windows 2000, Third Edition (Microsoft Programming Series)
ISBN: 0735610215
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2000
Pages: 121

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