Over roughly the last decade Microsoft has made a lot of effort on providing Safe String functions and requiring their use. Unfortunately, there is at least one hole in this effort that some of us pointed out years ago, that is still there, namely the functions RtlInitAnsiString, RtlInitString and RtlInitUnicodeString. The functions take a NULL […]
Yearly Archives: 2016
Build Drivers from the Command Line
- 06
- Jan
There are a lot of reasons to be able to build drivers from the command line. Many release engineering teams want to have automated nightly builds, and there are plenty of other uses for the capability. Recently I encountered more than one experienced Windows driver developer who complained that what they dislike about the Visual […]