Device drivers can optionally handle an IRP_MJ_SET_INFORMATION request.

When Sent

The operating system sends an IRP_MJ_SET_INFORMATION request to set metadata about a file or file handle. For example, when a driver calls ZwSetInformationFile, the operating system sends an IRP_MJ_SET_INFORMATION request.

Input Parameters

The Parameters.SetFile.FileInformationClass member is a FILE_INFORMATION_CLASS constant that specifies the type of metadata to set. For more information about the types of metadata, see the FileInformationClass parameter of ZwSetInformationFile.

The Parameters.SetFile.Length member specifies the length of the buffer that the AssociatedIrp.SystemBuffer member points to.

AssociatedIrp.SystemBuffer points to the buffer that contains the new information setting. The value of Parameters.SetFile.FileInformationClass determines the format of the data (a FILE_XXX_INFORMATION structure) to return. For more information about the formats of metadata, see the FileInformation parameter of ZwSetInformationFile.

Output Parameters

None

Operation

Drivers are not required to handle this request, and drivers that do are not required to handle every possible value of Parameters.SetFile.FileInformationClass. The driver's dispatch routine should return an error code such as STATUS_INVALID_DEVICE_REQUEST for any values that it does not handle.

Not all of the possible values of FILE_INFORMATION_CLASS can occur. For a complete list of the possible values, see the IRP_MJ_SET_INFORMATION topic in the Installable File System (IFS) documentation.