syslog -> NT event logger mapping

Robert Collins robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Fri Nov 17 15:01:00 GMT 2000


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Edge" <bedge@sattel.com>
To: <cygwin@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: syslog -> NT event logger mapping


> How about using openlog() to determine how to handle this?
> I'm not sure I can suggest which argument to openlog() could be used to
> provide some sort of hint to cygwin as to how the app wanted to handle
this
> issue.
> Perhaps extend the openlog API to take a filename which would specify the
> insertion string map file.

Nice idea.. I don't know enough of the API's to comment though :-[

> Of course this would involve a registry write on app startup to get the
> message file name into the registry.

That would be bad. IIRC You need admin rights to add the message files to
the appropriate key, but any application can log messages regardless of the
user privilege.

<snip>
Rob


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