alt Hacker News> AFAIK you can't open directories on Windows.
You can but you have to go through the lower level API: NtCreateFile can open a directory, and you can pass in a RootDirectory handle to following calls to make them handle-relative.
> AFAIK you can't open directories on Windows.
You can but you have to go through the lower level API: NtCreateFile can open a directory, and you can pass in a RootDirectory handle to following calls to make them handle-relative.
You can open directories using high level win32 APIs. What you need NtCreateFile for is opening files relative to an open directory.