NAME¶

LockFileEx (KERNEL32.@)

SYNOPSIS¶

BOOL LockFileEx
(
HANDLE hFile,
DWORD flags,
DWORD reserved,
DWORD count_low,
DWORD count_high,
LPOVERLAPPED overlapped
)

DESCRIPTION¶

Locks a byte range within an open file for shared or exclusive access.

RETURNS¶

success: TRUE failure: FALSE.

NOTES¶

Per Microsoft(tm) docs, the third parameter ( reserved) must be set to 0.

IMPLEMENTATION¶

Declared in "winbase.h". Implemented in "dlls/kernel32/file.c". Debug channel "file".