Glossary
- access right
A permission granted to a process to manipulate a specified object in a particular way by calling a system service. Different system object types support different access rights, which are stored in an object’s access control list.
- Active Template Library (ATL)
A set of template-based C++ classes that are often used to simplify the creation of COM objects.
- alternate setting
In a USB interface, a collection of endpoints that describe a function for the device.
- annotation
A macro that can be applied to source code to help PREfast analyze the code more effectively.
- arbitrary thread context
The context of the thread that happens to be running on a processor when the system borrows the thread to run a driver routine, such as an ISR. The ...
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