Debug capture utility?

[Pierre Landau]

This should be an FAQ. I once saw a standalone program that showed anything
sent through the OutputDebugString() call. This allowed debugging a service
without resorting to DebugBreak() and starting a separate copy of VC. Does
anybody recall where to find this utility?
Thanks!

[Randy Charles Morin]

This is from my book "Programming Windows Services"

#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>

int main( int argc, char ** argv )
{
SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES sa;
SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR sd;
sa.nLength = sizeof(SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES);
sa.bInheritHandle = TRUE;
sa.lpSecurityDescriptor = &sd;

std::cerr << "*********************\n"
"Debug Monitor Started\n"
"*********************\n";

if(::InitializeSecurityDescriptor(&sd,
SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR_REVISION) == FALSE)
{
std::cout << "InitializeSecurityDescriptor failed"
<< std::endl;
return 1;
}

if(::SetSecurityDescriptorDacl(&sd, TRUE, (PACL)NULL,
FALSE) == FALSE)
{
std::cout << "SetSecurityDescriptorDacl failed"
<< std::endl;
return 1;
}

HANDLE bufferready = ::CreateEvent(&sa, FALSE, FALSE,
"DBWIN_BUFFER_READY");
if (bufferready == NULL)
{
std::cout << "CreateEvent failed" << std::endl;
return 1;
}

if (GetLastError() == ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS)
{
std::cout << "Debugger Already Running" << std::endl;
return 1;
}

HANDLE dataready = ::CreateEvent(&sa, FALSE, FALSE,
"DBWIN_DATA_READY");
if (dataready == NULL)
{
std::cout << "CreateEvent failed" << std::endl;
::CloseHandle(bufferready);
return 1;
}

HANDLE buffer = ::CreateFileMapping(INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE,
&sa, PAGE_READWRITE, 0, 4096, "DBWIN_BUFFER");
if (buffer == NULL)
{
std::cout << "CreateFileMapping failed" << std::endl;
::CloseHandle(bufferready);
::CloseHandle(dataready);
return 1;
}

void * str = ::MapViewOfFile(buffer, FILE_MAP_READ, 0, 0,
4096);

if (str == NULL)
{
std::cout << "MapViewOfFile failed" << std::endl;
::CloseHandle(bufferready);
::CloseHandle(dataready);
::CloseHandle(buffer);
return 1;
}

char * string = (char *)str + sizeof(DWORD);
DWORD lastpid = 0xffffffff;
bool cr = true;

while (true)
{
if (::SetEvent(bufferready) == FALSE)
{
std::cout << "SetEvent failed" << std::endl;
::CloseHandle(bufferready);
::CloseHandle(dataready);
::UnmapViewOfFile(str);
::CloseHandle(buffer);
return 1;
};

if (::WaitForSingleObject(dataready, INFINITE)
!= WAIT_OBJECT_0)
{
break;
}
else
{
DWORD pid = *(DWORD *)str;
if (lastpid != pid)
{
lastpid = pid;
if (!cr)
{
std::cerr << std::endl;
cr = true;
}
}

if (cr)
{
std::cerr << lastpid << ":";
}

std::cerr << (char*)string;
cr = (*string &&
(string[::strlen(string) - 1] == '\n'));
}
}

std::cout << "WaitForSingleObject failed" << std::endl;
::CloseHandle(bufferready);
::CloseHandle(dataready);
::UnmapViewOfFile(str);
::CloseHandle(buffer);
return 1;
};

--
Randy Charles Morin
Author of Programming Windows Services
http://www.kbcafe.com

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"Pierre Landau" <pie...@polymap.net> wrote in message
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[Darken Screamer]

Ya, the best one is by Mark Russinovich and is called debugview. You'll
find it here http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/debugview.shtml

Darren

"Pierre Landau" <pie...@polymap.net> wrote in message
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