A week ago, I posted a review of _Undocumented Wndows NT_, a review that contains one factual error and one fallacious assumption which caused me to view the work in a worse light than I would otherwise have done.
The error is in attributing the reverse-engineering of the KiSystemServiceTable mechanism to Nishad Herath. Nishad has done an excellent, and by all appearances independent, job, but I was now given proof that the authors got there first. Kudos goes to Dabak/Phadke/Borate, and I retract the implied statement that they are offering information they could have found on dejanews -- such information was not available when they wrote the chapter in question.
The flawed assumption of mine was that the blurb on the cover, by which I judged _Undocumented Windows NT_, was written by the authors: it was not. The authors' summary can be found higher up on this page, and it does more accurately reflect the contents of the book. The mismatch between the expectations raised by the blurb and the actual contents caused me to give a lower rating than I would otherwise have given; I hope to correct the average by submitting this review with a corrected, higher, rating.
Finally, I would like to point out a minor, but helpful detail: While the authors do not offer as much information on NT's native API as Gary Nebbett's _Windows NT/2000 Native API Reference_, which I mentioned in my earlier review, it must be pointed out that they provide a header file with the necessary function and structure declarations, something that is missing from the Nebbett book.
Felix Kasza.
