FILE_NOTIFY_INFORMATION

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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3

4/8/2010

This structure describes the changes found by the CeGetFileNotificationInfo function.

Syntax

typedef struct _FILE_NOTIFY_INFORMATION {
  DWORD NextEntryOffset; 
  DWORD Action; 
  DWORD FileNameLength; 
  WCHAR FileName[1]; 
} FILE_NOTIFY_INFORMATION, *PFILE_NOTIFY_INFORMATION; 

Members

• NextEntryOffset
  Number of bytes that must be skipped to get the next record. A value of zero indicates that this is the last record.

• Action
  Type of change that occurred. The following table shows possible values.

  Value	Description
  FILE_ACTION_ADDED	The file was added to the directory.
  FILE_ACTION_MODIFIED	The file was modified. This can be a change in the time stamp or attributes.
  FILE_ACTION_REMOVED	The file was removed from the directory.
  FILE_ACTION_RENAMED_NEW_NAME	The file was renamed, and this value is the new name.
  FILE_ACTION_RENAMED_OLD_NAME	The file was renamed, and this value is the old name.

• FileNameLength
  Length of the file name portion of the record, in bytes. The length does not include the terminating NULL character.

• FileName
  File name, relative to the directory handle. The file name is in Unicode format and is not null-terminated.

Requirements

See Also

Reference

File I/O Structures
CeGetFileNotificationInfo