I am trying to call DeviceIO functions asynchronously by using the OVERLAPPED structure as described on MSDN. I am using the FSCTL_ENUM_USN_DATA control code to enumerate the MFT of NTFS drives but i am not able to run it asynchronously. The file handle is created with FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED but there is no difference whether I use the overlapped structure with FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED or not. The function does not return immediately. Is seems to be synchronous in both cases. The example below shows the enumeration of the first 100.000 MFT entries on the C:\ drive. Since I am not so familiar with the usage of overlapped structures maybe I did something wrong. My question: How can I execute DeviceIoControl(hDevice, FSCTL_ENUM_USN_DATA,...) asynchronously? Thanks for any help.
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <Windows.h>
typedef struct {
DWORDLONG nextusn;
USN_RECORD FirstUsnRecord;
BYTE Buffer[500];
}TDeviceIoControlOutputBuffer, *PTDeviceIoControlOutputBuffer;
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
MFT_ENUM_DATA lInputMftData;
lInputMftData.StartFileReferenceNumber = 0;
lInputMftData.MinMajorVersion = 2;
lInputMftData.MaxMajorVersion = 3;
lInputMftData.LowUsn = 0;
lInputMftData.HighUsn = 0;
TDeviceIoControlOutputBuffer lOutputMftData;
DWORD lOutBytesReturned = 0;
HANDLE hEvent = CreateEvent(NULL, FALSE, FALSE, NULL);
OVERLAPPED lOverlapped = { 0 };
lOverlapped.hEvent = hEvent;
LPCWSTR path = L"\\\\.\\C:";
HANDLE hDevice = CreateFile(path, GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_WRITE | FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED, NULL);
if (hDevice != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
lOutputMftData.nextusn = 0;
while (lOutputMftData.nextusn < 100000) {
lInputMftData.StartFileReferenceNumber = lOutputMftData.nextusn;
BOOL result = DeviceIoControl(hDevice, FSCTL_ENUM_USN_DATA, &lInputMftData, sizeof(lInputMftData), &lOutputMftData, sizeof(lOutputMftData), &lOutBytesReturned, &lOverlapped);
}
}
}