[Win32utils-devel] Possible problems with EventLog#write

[Heesob Park]

Hi,

2006/5/22, Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>:
> Heesob Park wrote:
>
> <snip>
> However, I took that general idea and came up with this solution:
>
> # Remove references to the @last instance variable first
> def tail(frequency=5)
>    unless block_given?
>       raise EventLogError, 'block missing for tail()'
>    end
>
>    old_total = total_records()
>    flags     = FORWARDS_READ | SEEK_READ
>    rec_num   = read_last_event.record_number
>
>    while true
>       new_total = total_records()
>       if new_total != old_total
>          read(flags, rec_num).each{ |log| yield log }
>          old_total = new_total
>          rec_num   = read_last_event.record_number
>       end
>       sleep frequency
>    end
> end
>
> I tail'd the Security log (where I could force lots of log entries by
> doing some random things with user accounts) and it handled it just fine.
>
> If you see any problems with this approach please let me know.
> Otherwise, I'm going to commit it later this week (along with updated docs).
>
It works fine. go ahead.

> However, that still leaves us with the bigint/long issue.
>
The bigint/long issue is only in c version of eventlog.
The source  eventlog.c line #711
  dwEventID = NUM2INT(v_event_id);
should be
  dwEventID = NUM2ULONG(v_event_id);

Pure ruby version works fine.

Regards,

Park Heesob