An object consists of a standard header and object-specific attributes. Because all objects have the same structure, there is a single object manager in Windows that maintains all objects.

The object header includes items such as the object name, so that other processes can reference the object by name, and a security descriptor, so that the object manager can control which processes access the system resource.

The tasks that the object manager performs include the following:

• Creating objects
• Verifying that a process has the right to use the object
• Creating object handles and returning them to the caller
• Maintaining resource quotas
• Creating duplicate handles
• Closing handles to objects

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