Possible problems with EventLog#write

> -----Original Message-----
> From: win32utils-devel-bouncesrubyforge.org 
> [mailto:win32utils-devel-bouncesrubyforge.org] On Behalf Of

> Heesob Park
> Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:22 PM
> To: Development and ideas for win32utils projects
> Subject: Re: [Win32utils-devel] Possible problems with
EventLog#write
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 2006/5/22, Daniel Berger <djberg96gmail.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.

Ok, I'm going to get it out sometime in the next few days. 
I got a
bunch of the preliminary work out of the way last night, but
I need to
put out the next release of windows-pr first.
 
> > 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.

You're right, thank you.  Well, I guess we won't have to
worry about
that any more. 

Thanks for you time and help.

Dan


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