win32utils devel - May 2006 - Need a little help with the pure Rubywin32-eventlog

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> From: win32utils-devel-bounces at rubyforge.org 
> [mailto:win32utils-devel-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of 
> Heesob Park
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:51 PM
> To: Development and ideas for win32utils projects
> Subject: Re: [Win32utils-devel] Need a little help with the 
> pure Rubywin32-eventlog
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 2006/5/17, Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I''m working on the EventLog#read method for the pure Ruby 
> version of 
> > win32-eventlog, but I''m stuck on the get_description private
method.
> >
> > Here are the problems:
> >
> > * I don''t think I''m advancing the EVENTLOGRECORD
properly between
> > iterations.  Take a look at the end of the "while dwread > 
> 0" loop.  I 
> > get some records, but not all of them.
> >
> > * I''m not sure how to properly populate or pack/unpack the
va_list,
> > which is later passed to the FormatMessage() function.
> >
> > Please take a look.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dan
> 
> Here is the patch:
<snip>

Thanks.  That mostly seems to work.  However, I''m hitting a segfault
after a few records.  As far as I can tell this happens when +buf+ is
empty, but I''m not positive that''s the culprit.

I also noticed that FormatMessage''s parameter list is defined as
''LPLLPLP'' in error.rb (from windows-pr).  Thinking that might
be the
culprit I tried changing the second param to ''L'', but that
didn''t seem
to have any effect.

Any ideas?

Dan


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