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# LOCAL

Tells the system that the method runs locally in the driver extension’s process space.

```
#define LOCAL
```

## Discussion

DriverKit adds this macro to methods that must run locally in your driver extension. A method tagged with this macro may still be called by a remote process such as the kernel. Don’t add this macro to your own methods.

This macro applies only to methods.

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