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Microsoft® Windows® Internals: Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000, 4th Edition
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Microsoft® Windows® Internals: Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000, 4th Edition

by Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon
December 2004
Intermediate to advanced
976 pages
33h 33m
English
Microsoft Press
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Local Procedure Calls (LPCs)

A local procedure call (LPC) is an interprocess communication facility for high-speed message passing. It is not directly available through the Windows API; it is an internal mechanism available only to Windows operating system components. Here are some examples of where LPCs are used:

  • Windows applications that use remote procedure calls (RPCs), a documented API, indirectly use LPCs when they specify local-RPC, a form of RPC used to communicate between processes on the same system.

  • A few Windows APIs result in sending messages to the Windows subsystem process.

  • Winlogon uses LPCs to communicate with the local security authentication server process, LSASS.

  • The security reference monitor (an executive component explained ...

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