On the Windows operating system, how do you iterate the files in a given directory without the use of third-party libraries or the use of FindFirstFile, FindNextFile, etc?
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On the Windows operating system, how do you iterate the files in a given directory without the use of third-party libraries or the use of FindFirstFile, FindNextFile, etc?
Given that FindFirstFile is the main file enumeration method in Windows, what else do you expect to get? There are NT API functions (ZwQueryDirectoryFile and similar), which are called by FindFirstFile, but they are more complicated and don’t give real benefit.