Re: Problem with GetComputerName

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From: Koen
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 07:49

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Remy Lebeau (TeamB) wrote:

> You need to initialize the value to the actual size of your buffer. 
> You are lucky the code worked at all, it very well could have crashed
> your program altogether regardless of the OS used.  Since you did not
> initialize the value, it would be initialized with random memory,
> which could have caused GetComputerName() to misuse your buffer.
> 
>     char name[MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH + 1] = {0};
>     DWORD size = MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH;
>     //...
> 

Ah, Ok. Thanks for the info, Remy! This works like a charm.

regards,

Koen

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