[Box Backup-dev] Logging

[Charles Lecklider]

Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi Charles,
> 
>> Don't forget that a Win32 service can have a console too; it's
>> incredibly handy if you want to see what's going on, but don't want to
>> fill the eventlog. Once you've persuaded the RTL that stdout/stderr
>> really do have someplace to go, everything works just like a normal
>> console app.
> 
> 
> Where can I find out more about how to persuade the RTL and how to open
> the console window?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/allocconsole.asp

AllocConsole gets you a new console with some handles. I have no idea
how you persuade the VC RTL to use it - I've only ever done it with
Watcom (and that's trivial - just call __NTConsoleOutput).

-C