[ruby-talk:5872] Weird Win32API problem

This is probably a no-brainer to folks who mess about on Windows every 
day, but it has me stumped...

We have some code (part of the installer) that updates the registry:

    result = RegCreateKey.call(top, subkey, 0, keyClass,
      REG_OPTION_NON_VOLATILE, KEY_ALL_ACCESS, retSecurity,
      retHandle, retResult)

Where

  RegCreateKey = Win32API.new("advapi32", "RegCreateKeyEx",
    ['i','p','i','p','i','i','p','p','p'],'i')


This works fine in isolation. However, if before calling tihs code we
call the following routine:

   def log(*msg)
     File.open($logfile, "a+") {|f| f.puts *msg}
   end

Then the RegCreateKey fails, saying it was passed an invalid
parameter.

It's the open, not the puts, that seems to be causing the problem.


Does anyone have any ideas? Are there any linkages between opening
files are playing with the registry?


Thanks


Dave