OK, then we're using it incorrectly.

Is there a function that maps exit codes to explanation strings?

On 10-Aug-2012 11:54 AM, Rom Walton wrote:
> We are using FormatMessage correctly.  However, the code we are passing it is
> not a value we get from GetLastError(), we are passing it a value being
> returned from GetExitCodeProcess().
>
> ----- Rom
>
> -----Original Message----- From: David Anderson
> [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 2:30 PM To:
> [email protected]; Rom Walton Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] Error
> Messages
>
> Windows supplies a function for converting numeric error codes to
> human-readable strings: FormatMessage():
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms679351%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
>
>  BOINC calls this when appropriate and shows the result. In this case it
> seems to be return an empty string for 0xc0000135. Rom, can you verify that
> we're calling FormatMessage() correctly?
>
> -- David
>
> On 09-Aug-2012 8:22 AM, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
>
>> 0xc0000135 is a Windows error code, not a BOINC error code. That number is
>> the only information BOINC receives from Windows, so it'd be hard for it to
>> tell the user "what exactly is wrong and how to fix it".
>>
>
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