3.4.8 Structures

The STARTUPINFO data structure is used in CreateProcess to control the initial appearance of a child process.

typedef struct _STARTUPINFO { /* si */

DWORD cb;

LPTSTR lpReserved;

LPTSTR lpDesktop;

LPSTR lpTitle;

DWORD dwX;

DWORD dwY;

DWORD dwXSize;

DWORD dwYSize;

DWORD dwXCountChars;

DWORD dwYCountChars;

DWORD dwFillAttribute;

DWORD dwFlags;

WORD wShowWindow;

WORD cbReserved2;

LPBYTE lpReserved2;

} STARTUPINFO, *LPSTARTUPINFO;

The PROCESS_INFORMATION data structure is used in CreateProcess to return information about the new process.

typedef struct _PROCESS_INFORMATION { /* pi */

HANDLE hProcess;

HANDLE hThread;

DWORD dwProcessId;

DWORD dwThreadId;

} PROCESS_INFORMATION;