Re: Anyone know how to access the Link between Page File & Physical Memory?

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From: Maxim S. Shatskih (maxim_at_storagecraft.com)
Date: 02/03/04 

Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 18:52:23 +0300

    You cannot do this without a driver. 

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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
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"Antranik" <ardziv13REMOVE_CAPS@freenet.no_spam.am> wrote in message
news:E8CC72FD-CDDB-4C0A-9FBB-416E6CDEB9BD@microsoft.com...
> I went through debuging a call to malloc() to try to find out where the link
between virtual memory and physical memory is stored, but ended up with calls
to HeapAlloc() that are stepped over by the debugger.
>
> What I need to do is, given a buffer such as
> int myBuffer  = (int*)malloc(whateverSize * sizeof(int));
>
> I want to lock the pages in physical memory and then map those pages to
another virtual address.
>
> Does anyone know how to do this?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Antranik

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