FILE_ID_BOTH_DIR_INFO structure (winbase.h)

Contains information about files in the specified directory. Used for directory handles. Use only when calling GetFileInformationByHandleEx. The number of files that are returned for each call to GetFileInformationByHandleEx depends on the size of the buffer that is passed to the function. Any subsequent calls to GetFileInformationByHandleEx on the same handle will resume the enumeration operation after the last file is returned.

Syntax

typedef struct _FILE_ID_BOTH_DIR_INFO {
  DWORD         NextEntryOffset;
  DWORD         FileIndex;
  LARGE_INTEGER CreationTime;
  LARGE_INTEGER LastAccessTime;
  LARGE_INTEGER LastWriteTime;
  LARGE_INTEGER ChangeTime;
  LARGE_INTEGER EndOfFile;
  LARGE_INTEGER AllocationSize;
  DWORD         FileAttributes;
  DWORD         FileNameLength;
  DWORD         EaSize;
  CCHAR         ShortNameLength;
  WCHAR         ShortName[12];
  LARGE_INTEGER FileId;
  WCHAR         FileName[1];
} FILE_ID_BOTH_DIR_INFO, *PFILE_ID_BOTH_DIR_INFO;

Members

NextEntryOffset

The offset for the next FILE_ID_BOTH_DIR_INFO structure that is returned. Contains zero (0) if no other entries follow this one.

FileIndex

The byte offset of the file within the parent directory. This member is undefined for file systems, such as NTFS, in which the position of a file within the parent directory is not fixed and can be changed at any time to maintain sort order.

CreationTime

The time that the file was created.

LastAccessTime

The time that the file was last accessed.

LastWriteTime

The time that the file was last written to.

ChangeTime

The time that the file was last changed.

EndOfFile

The absolute new end-of-file position as a byte offset from the start of the file to the end of the file. Because this value is zero-based, it actually refers to the first free byte in the file. In other words, EndOfFile is the offset to the byte that immediately follows the last valid byte in the file.

AllocationSize

The number of bytes that are allocated for the file. This value is usually a multiple of the sector or cluster size of the underlying physical device.

FileAttributes

The file attributes. This member can be any valid combination of the following attributes:

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ARCHIVE (0x00000020)

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_COMPRESSED (0x00000800)

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY (0x00000010)

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN (0x00000002)

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL (0x00000080)

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY (0x00000001)

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SYSTEM (0x00000004)

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY (0x00000100)

FileNameLength

The length of the file name.

EaSize

The size of the extended attributes for the file.

ShortNameLength

The length of ShortName.

ShortName[12]

The short 8.3 file naming convention (for example, "FILENAME.TXT") name of the file.

FileId

The file ID.

FileName[1]

The first character of the file name string. This is followed in memory by the remainder of the string.

Remarks

No specific access rights are required to query this information.

File reference numbers, also called file IDs, are guaranteed to be unique only within a static file system. They are not guaranteed to be unique over time, because file systems are free to reuse them. Nor are they guaranteed to remain constant. For example, the FAT file system generates the file reference number for a file from the byte offset of the file's directory entry record (DIRENT) on the disk. Defragmentation can change this byte offset. Thus a FAT file reference number can change over time.

All dates and times are in absolute system-time format. Absolute system time is the number of 100-nanosecond intervals since the start of the year 1601.

This FILE_ID_BOTH_DIR_INFO structure must be aligned on a DWORDLONG (8-byte) boundary. If a buffer contains two or more of these structures, the NextEntryOffset value in each entry, except the last, falls on an 8-byte boundary.

Requirements

See also

FILE_INFO_BY_HANDLE_CLASS

File Attribute Constants

GetFileInformationByHandleEx