event logging -- cron

[Andrew DeFaria]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> For all those interested: <http://cygwin.com/contrib.html> contains 
> complete instructions on how to
> submit patches. To summarize: a) use "diff -up"; b) include a 
> ChangeLog; c) use the <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com> list.
>
> As for your specific suggestion, Andrew, you'll also need to provide 
> the resource with the specific code, so that event viewer is able to 
> decipher it.

The reference you provided to MS's site didn't exactly describe what a 
"resource" is, how you define/create it and how you use it. I believe 
the parameter we are talking about is dwEventID which MS defines as:

dwEventID
    [in] Event identifier. The event identifier specifies the entry in
the message file associated with the event source.

There is no description of the format of message file. Indeed the 
example code at 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/debug/base/reportevent.asp 
shows a simple example were the only defintion of dwEventID is a 
#define. If you note carefully I even used the same DWORD value as the 
example there.

Searching around MS's site does not seem to describe how one goes about 
making such resources except in apparently an MS Visual C++ style with 
some sort of .mc file. As such this becomes out of my league as to how 
to map this MS concept of resource compiler/resources and inhertient 
dependency on MS tools with Cygwin's environment (probably exactly why 
this wasn't done in the first place).



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