The Old New Thing

The source of much confusion: “backed by the system paging file”

Perhaps one of the most misunderstood sentences in the Win32 documentation is this little bit in the documentation for : If hFile is INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, the calling process must also specify a size for the file mapping object in the dwMaximum­Size­High and dwMaximum­Size­Low parameters. In this scenario, Create­File&...