Question about advapi32/eventlog.c

[David Hemmo]

Hello

The stubs in eventlog.c return an odd value (0xcafe4242) instead of  
NULL.
For example, in RegisterEventSourceW, NULL would be an error and  
would mean the register did not work. The current value doesn't tell  
the application that it didn't work.
Is there a reason ?

Thanks

David Hemmo

[James Hawkins]

On 5/25/05, David Hemmo  wrote:
> Hello
>
> The stubs in eventlog.c return an odd value (0xcafe4242) instead of
> NULL.
> For example, in RegisterEventSourceW, NULL would be an error and
> would mean the register did not work. The current value doesn't tell
> the application that it didn't work.
> Is there a reason ?

The best reason I can think of is that some programs will stop/throw
an exception/etc when they run e.g. OpenEventLog and it fails (returns
NULL).  The only functions that use the handle returned are the Event*
functions and they're all (mostly) stubs.  In either case we don't use
the handle yet.  The bottom line is that it *might* let some
application that uses the Event* api work when otherwise it would
fail.