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

Shutdown

If someone is logged on and a process initiates a shutdown by calling the Windows ExitWindowsEx function, a message is sent to Csrss instructing it to perform the shutdown. Csrss in turn impersonates the caller and sends a Windows message to a hidden window owned by Winlogon, telling it to perform a system shutdown. Winlogon then impersonates the currently logged-on user (who might or might not have the same security context as the user who initiated the system shutdown) and calls ExitWindowsEx with some special internal flags. Again, this call causes a message to be sent to Csrss requesting a system shutdown.

This time, Csrss sees that the request is from Winlogon and loops through all the processes in the logon session of the interactive ...

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