Namespace redirection, Windows, 952

Namespace virtualization, Windows, 1011

Naming, 1059–1061

Naming transparency, 591–593

National Security Agency, 14

Native NT API, 884–885

NC-NUMA (see Non Cache-coherent NUMA)

Nested page table, 495–496

• Hyper-V, 1005

Netbook, 877

Network device, 765

Network file system, 299, 783–789

• implementation, 786–789

• V4, 789

Network file system architecture, 783–784

Network file system protocol, 784–786

Network hardware, 581–584

Network interface, 561–562

Network operating system, 18

Network protocol, 586–588

Network service types, 585–586

Networking Linux, 759–761

Next fit memory management algorithm, 190

NFS (see Network File System)

NFU (see Not Frequently Used page replacement algorithm)

NIC, smart, 562

Nice system call, 737

No memory abstraction, 180–183

No silver bullet, 1082

Node descriptor, 750

Node-to-network communication, 564

Nonblocking call, 566

Nonblocking network, 532

Noncanonical mode, 398

Noncontrol-flow diverting attack, 656–657

Nonpreemptable resource, 438

Nonpreemptive scheduling, 156

Nonrepudiability, 609

Nonresident attribute, NT file system, 993

Nonuniform memory access multiprocessor, 530–537

Nonvolatile memory express, 381

Nonvolatile RAM, 385

Nonvolatile storage, 28–29

Nop sled, 650

Not frequently used page replacement algorithm, 212

Not recently used page replacement algorithm, 209–210

Notification event, 938

Notification facility, Windows, 909

Notification object, 905

Notification service, Windows, 1002

Notify system call, 1047

NPT (see Nested Page Tables)

NPU (see Neural Processing Unit)

NRU (see Not Recently Used page replacement algorithm)

NT (see New Technology)

NT API, 884–885

NT file system, 262, 989–1000

• alternate data stream, 994

• base record, 991

• compression, 998–999

• default data stream, 994

• encryption, 1000

• immediate file, 994

• implementation, 990–1000

• journaling, 890, 999–1000

• nonresident attribute, 993

• sparse file, 995–996

• storage allocation, 994–998

• structure, 991–994

NT file system API call, 884–887

NtAllocateVirtualMemory Windows API call, 885

NtCancelIoFile Windows API call, 984

NtClose Windows API call, 918, 920

NtCreateFile Windows API call, 885, 922, 923, 982, 984

NtCreateProcess Windows API call, 884, 885, 936, 943

NtCreateThread Windows API call, 885, 936

NtCreateUserProcess Windows API call, 936, 941, 942

NtDeviceIoControlFile Windows API call, 984

NtDuplicateObject Windows API call, 885

NtFlushBuffersFile Windows API call, 984

NTFS (see NT File System)

NtFsControlFile Windows API call, 984, 1000

NtLockFile Windows API call, 984

NtMapViewOfSection Windows API call, 885

NtNotifyChangeDirectoryFile Windows API call, 983, 999

NTOS, 900

NTOS program, 880

NtQueryDirectoryFile Windows API call, 982

NtQueryInformationFile Windows API call, 983

NtReadFile Windows API call, 920, 982

NtReadVirtualMemory Windows API call, 885

NtResumeThread Windows API call, 936, 943

NtSetInformationFile Windows API call, 983

NtSetVolumeInformationFile Windows API call, 983

NtUnLockFile Windows API call, 984

NtWriteFile Windows API call, 920, 982

NtWriteVirtualMemory Windows API call, 885

Null pointer dereference attack, 664–665

NUMA (see Nonuniform Memory Access)

NUMA multiprocessor, 535–537

NVDIA, 540

NVMe (see Non-Volatile Memory Express)

NX bit, 652