alt Hacker News> no, you can also call ntdll (or even syscalls although those aren't stable), there's plenty of documentation on the internet
I mean officially. Yes, you can find some on the internet, but nothing on the official MSDN.
> but also why would you, not much point except for very niche functionality
Exactly. Using system DLL API is backward and forward compatible, and just as standardized and well-documented as the POSIX API. I see no problem relying on it.
(Sidenote: as a bonus, MSDN is surprisingly good, understandable, well organized, lots of examples. I rarely say this, but well done MS, that's how a dev doc should be.)
>> no, you can also call ntdll (or even syscalls although those aren't stable), there's plenty of documentation on the internet
> I mean officially. Yes, you can find some on the internet, but nothing on the official MSDN.
It seems that changed. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/devnotes/ntq... says
but it on the official MSDN site, and it does document a call in Ntdll.dll.It’s easy to find many more examples such as https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winternl..., so I don’t think that’s an accident.