Re: [ros-dev] Using zones in NTOS

[Aliberti Emanuele]

Casper Hornstrup wrote:

>  Zones are pre-NT4 APIs. Microsoft recomends using
> lookaside lists instead.
> Several ReactOS components use them (TCP/IP driver, storage stack and ntoskrnl to name a
> few).
>
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>  
Thank you for remembering me that zones are absolete. This explains why 
they are implemented in ROS with macros.

Among obsolete kernel APIs, I found ROS code often uses ExAllocatePool, 
which is marked as obsolete in the DDK. They suggest tagging memory 
wherever you allocate a block.

Emanuele