CreateFileW(3w)

CreateFileW3w

Usage

HANDLE CreateFileW
(
LPCWSTR filename,
DWORD access,
DWORD sharing,
LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES sa,
DWORD creation,
DWORD attributes,
HANDLE template
)

Overview

CreateFileW [KERNEL32.@] Creates or opens a file or other object.

Creates or opens an object, and returns a handle that can be used to access that object.

Params

filename [In] pointer to filename to be accessed.

access [In] access mode requested.

sharing [In] share mode.

sa [In] pointer to security attributes.

creation [In] how to create the file.

attributes [In] attributes for newly created file.

template [In] handle to file with extended attributes to copy.

Returns

Success: Open handle to specified file

Failure: INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE

Implementation

Declared in "winbase.h".

Implemented in "dlls/kernel32/file.c".

Debug channel "file".

Releases

5 releases since Debian 2.1 (Slink); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 2.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0
  4. 6.0
  5. 7

From libwine-dev 1.4.1-4 in Debian 7 (Wheezy). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.