My primary source would be the Windows Internals book, which conveniently talks about this in the free sample chapter of the 5th edition [1] (thought I imagine it's worth getting the seventh edition to see what changed since then). I'd say that's pretty authorative, having at least one senior kernel developer in the author list. There are also various blog posts around the net, but they seem to be using this book/chapter as their source too.
Of course if you really want to know, the source code of Windows XP got leaked and is easy enough to find on github, so it should be possible to verify. I don't really know my way around that ball of source code though.
wongarsu|2 years ago
Of course if you really want to know, the source code of Windows XP got leaked and is easy enough to find on github, so it should be possible to verify. I don't really know my way around that ball of source code though.
1: https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/articles/article.aspx?p=...