Mike Mercier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is the script below correct? It works as expected, except I get the error:
> Use of uninitialized value in unpack at
> C:/Perl/site/lib/Win32/EventLog.pm line 130.
> It seems to be trying to read an event after the last has been read.
>
> Either I have done something wrong, or Win32::EventLog should do:
>
> sub Read {
> my $self = shift;
>
> die "usage: OBJECT->Read(FLAGS, RECORDOFFSET, HASHREF)\n" unless @_ == 3;
>
> my ($readflags,$recordoffset) = @_;
> # The following is stolen shamelessly from Wyt's tests for the registry.
> my $result = ReadEventLog($self->{handle}, $readflags, $recordoffset,
> my $header, my $source, my $computer, my $sid,
> my $data, my $strings);
> # insert this
> if ($result) {
> my ($length,
> $reserved,
> $recordnumber,
> .... continue with rest of code
> }
>
> return $result;
> }
Maybe instead change:
$dataoffset) = unpack('l6s4l6', $header);
to
$dataoffset) = unpack('l6s4l6', $header) if $header;
Or you could even fake a null result for $header rather than undef:
$dataoffset) = unpack('l6s4l6', $header || "\000" x 56);
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