Hi!
[Max Vorobyev]
> I've disassembled HP's driver for ScanJet 5s and convert most
> branches (according to TWAIN driver description) to C-code. But
> there is a problem: driver deals with LPT port via DeviceIoControl
> function with some IOCTL codes. All I have is numeric constants, but
> I need description of these command codes and (more important)
> buffer structures for them. Those codes are not described in MSDN.
> Perhaps, they should be in DDK of Windows NT. Can somebody help me
> to find descriptions?
The TWAIN drivers of scanner have to access the parallel port directly
so they have to run at ring-0 ("root"). Because normal DLL are executed
at ring-3 they come with a ring-0-dll a so called virtual device driver.
this VxD (the x is sometimes replaced by the name of the device -
virtuall keyboard device = VKD). Functions in the ring-0-dll are called
using DeviceIOControl, the IOCTL number is the function number, the
inbuffer is the parameter stack the outbuffer is the returnstack.
However there's no standard that restricts you in anyway. You'll have to
disassemble the VxD driver and see what functions it implements... nasty
work, btw ;-)
-- jochen
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