Chapter 5. General Development Issues

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

Writing kernel-mode code is not the same as writing an application program because the driver is a trusted component of the system. Code must be carefully written and follow special rules. This chapter is a short manual of good and sometimes required etiquette for driver writers.

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