Win32 API in pywin32

[Michael Torrie]

On 08/13/2016 06:22 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 10:49:11 PM UTC+12, eryk sun wrote:
>> You can call GetFileSizeEx [1]. Or call GetFileInformationByHandleEx
>> [2] to get the FileStandardInfo. These APIs use the LARGE_INTEGER
>> union type, which has a long long "QuadPart" member.
>> ...
>> FILETIME is a legacy of the Windows API. The kernel and user-mode
>> runtime library (i.e. Rtl* in ntdll) use LARGE_INTEGER. Note that all
>> of the info classes for GetFileInformationByHandleEx also use
>> LARGE_INTEGER because they're basically a thin layer over the NT API.
>> ...
>> [etc etc]
> 
> What an absolute mess, compared to the simplicity of POSIX/Linux <https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html>.
> 
> Is it any wonder that Microsoft is now adding a Linux API layer to Windows?

Oops had to read the link first.  I get it now!