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FILE_STAT_LX_INFORMATION structure (ntifs.h)

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FILE_STAT_LX_INFORMATION contains Linux metadata extended attributes present on the file. This is used and created by the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

Syntax

typedef struct _FILE_STAT_LX_INFORMATION {
  LARGE_INTEGER FileId;
  LARGE_INTEGER CreationTime;
  LARGE_INTEGER LastAccessTime;
  LARGE_INTEGER LastWriteTime;
  LARGE_INTEGER ChangeTime;
  LARGE_INTEGER AllocationSize;
  LARGE_INTEGER EndOfFile;
  ULONG         FileAttributes;
  ULONG         ReparseTag;
  ULONG         NumberOfLinks;
  ACCESS_MASK   EffectiveAccess;
  ULONG         LxFlags;
  ULONG         LxUid;
  ULONG         LxGid;
  ULONG         LxMode;
  ULONG         LxDeviceIdMajor;
  ULONG         LxDeviceIdMinor;
} FILE_STAT_LX_INFORMATION, *PFILE_STAT_LX_INFORMATION;

Members

FileId

Specifies the id of a file.

CreationTime

Specifies the creation time of a file.

LastAccessTime

Specifies the last time a file was accessed.

LastWriteTime

Specifies the last time a file was written to.

ChangeTime

Specifies the last time a file was changed.

AllocationSize

File allocation size, in bytes. Usually this value is a multiple of the sector or cluster size of the underlying physical device.

EndOfFile

Absolute new end-of-file position as a byte offset from the start of the file. EndOfFile specifies the byte offset to the end of the file. Because this value is zero-based, it actually refers to the first free byte in the file. In other words, EndOfFile is the offset to the byte immediately following the last valid byte in the file.

FileAttributes

File attributes, which can be any valid combination of the following:

Attribute Value
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY 0x00000001
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN 0x00000002
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SYSTEM 0x00000004
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY 0x00000010
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ARCHIVE 0x00000020
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL 0x00000080

ReparseTag

Reparse point tag. See About reparse points for more information.

NumberOfLinks

Specifies the number of links to the file.

EffectiveAccess

Specifies the access rights of the file.

LxFlags

The flags associated with FILE_STAT_LX_INFORMATION that specify which metadata fields were present in the file.

Flag Value
LX_FILE_METADATA_HAS_UID x1
LX_FILE_METADATA_HAS_GID x2
LX_FILE_METADATA_HAS_MODE x4
LX_FILE_METADATA_HAS_DEVICE_ID x8
LX_FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_DIR x10

LxUid

Specifies the User id of the file.

LxGid

Specifies the Group id of the file.

LxMode

Specifies the Linux file type and file system permissions. These values are defined in sys/stat.h in the Windows SDK.

  • S_IFLNK
  • S_IFSOCK
  • S_IFBLK
Flag Description
_S_IFMT 0xF000 File type mask
_S_IFDIR 0x4000 Directory
_S_IFCHR 0x2000 Character special
_S_IFIFO 0x1000 Pipe
_S_IFREG 0x8000 Regular
_S_IREAD 0x0100 Read permission, owner
_S_IWRITE 0x0080 Write permission, owner
_S_IEXEC 0x0040 Execute/search permission, owner

LxDeviceIdMajor

For device files (_S_IFCHR or S_IFBLK), specifies the device major number. For other file types, this field is not used.

LxDeviceIdMinor

For device files (_S_IFCHR or S_IFBLK), specifies the device minor number. For other file types, this field is not used.

Remarks

NtQueryInformationByName and NtQueryInformationFile return information in a FILE_STAT_LX_INFORMATION structure when their FileInformationClass parameter is FileStatLxInformation.

For more information about absolute and relative symbolic links, see Creating Symbolic Links in the Microsoft Windows SDK documentation.

Requirements

Requirement Value
Header ntifs.h

See also

NtQueryInformationByName

NtQueryInformationFile