From: djberg96@... (Daniel Berger)
Date: 2004-07-03T23:22:44+09:00
Subject: win32ole and uint64 handling

Hi,

Ruby 1.8.2 RC2
Windows 2000

The good news is that 1.8.2 seems to be handling uint64 types now
without segfaulting.  The bad news is that it returns them as a String
instead of a Fixnum (or Bignum).  Here's a little demo program:

require "win32ole"
require "socket"

host = ARGV[0] || Socket.gethostname
wmi = WIN32OLE.connect("winmgmts://#{host}/root/cimv2")

wmi.InstancesOf("Win32_Process").each{ |proc|
   # string
   p proc.Caption
   p proc.Caption.class          # String
   puts "=" * 20
   
   # uint32
   p proc.ParentProcessId
   p proc.ParentProcessId.class  # Fixnum
   p proc.SessionId
   p proc.SessionId.class        # Fixnum
   puts "=" * 20
   
   # uint64
   p proc.KernelModeTime
   p proc.KernelModeTime.class   # String ?!
   p proc.WorkingSetSize
   p proc.WorkingSetSize.class   # String ?!
   break
}

Any chance this can be fixed before 1.8.2 final?

Regards,

Dan