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VBox/com/*.h: file header and block fixes.

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1/** @file
2 * MS COM / XPCOM Abstraction Layer - COM initialization / shutdown.
3 */
4
5/*
6 * Copyright (C) 2005-2012 Oracle Corporation
7 *
8 * This file is part of VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), as
9 * available from http://www.virtualbox.org. This file is free software;
10 * you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
11 * General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software
12 * Foundation, in version 2 as it comes in the "COPYING" file of the
13 * VirtualBox OSE distribution. VirtualBox OSE is distributed in the
14 * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any kind.
15 *
16 * The contents of this file may alternatively be used under the terms
17 * of the Common Development and Distribution License Version 1.0
18 * (CDDL) only, as it comes in the "COPYING.CDDL" file of the
19 * VirtualBox OSE distribution, in which case the provisions of the
20 * CDDL are applicable instead of those of the GPL.
21 *
22 * You may elect to license modified versions of this file under the
23 * terms and conditions of either the GPL or the CDDL or both.
24 */
25
26#ifndef ___VBox_com_com_h
27#define ___VBox_com_com_h
28
29#include "VBox/com/defs.h"
30
31namespace com
32{
33
34/**
35 * Initializes the COM runtime.
36 * Must be called on the main thread, before any COM activity in any thread, and by any thread
37 * willing to perform COM operations.
38 *
39 * @param fMain if call is performed on the GUI thread
40 * @return COM result code
41 */
42HRESULT Initialize(bool fGui = false);
43
44/**
45 * Shuts down the COM runtime.
46 * Must be called on the main thread before termination.
47 * No COM calls may be made in any thread after this method returns.
48 */
49HRESULT Shutdown();
50
51/**
52 * Resolves a given interface ID to a string containing the interface name.
53 * If, for some reason, the given IID cannot be resolved to a name, a NULL
54 * string is returned. A non-NULL string returned by this function must be
55 * freed using SysFreeString().
56 *
57 * @param aIID ID of the interface to get a name for
58 * @param aName Resolved interface name or @c NULL on error
59 */
60void GetInterfaceNameByIID(const GUID &aIID, BSTR *aName);
61
62/**
63 * Returns the VirtualBox user home directory.
64 *
65 * On failure, this function will return a path that caused a failure (or
66 * NULL if the failure is not path-related).
67 *
68 * On success, this function will try to create the returned directory if it
69 * doesn't exist yet. This may also fail with the corresponding status code.
70 *
71 * If @a aDirLen is smaller than RTPATH_MAX then there is a great chance that
72 * this method will return VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW.
73 *
74 * @param aDir Buffer to store the directory string in UTF-8 encoding.
75 * @param aDirLen Length of the supplied buffer including space for the
76 * terminating null character, in bytes.
77 * @param fCreateDir Flag whether to create the returned directory on success if it
78 * doesn't exist.
79 * @return VBox status code.
80 */
81int GetVBoxUserHomeDirectory(char *aDir, size_t aDirLen, bool fCreateDir = true);
82
83/**
84 * Creates a release log file, used both in VBoxSVC and in API clients.
85 *
86 * @param pcszEntity Human readable name of the program.
87 * @param pcszLogFile Name of the release log file.
88 * @param fFlags Logger instance flags.
89 * @param pcszGroupSettings Group logging settings.
90 * @param pcszEnvVarBase Base environment variable name for the logger.
91 * @param fDestFlags Logger destination flags.
92 * @param cMaxEntriesPerGroup Limit for log entries per group. UINT32_MAX for no limit.
93 * @param cHistory Number of old log files to keep.
94 * @param uHistoryFileTime Maximum amount of time to put in a log file.
95 * @param uHistoryFileSize Maximum size of a log file before rotating.
96 * @param pszError In case of creation failure: buffer for error message.
97 * @param cbError Size of error message buffer.
98 * @return VBox status code.
99 */
100int VBoxLogRelCreate(const char *pcszEntity, const char *pcszLogFile,
101 uint32_t fFlags, const char *pcszGroupSettings,
102 const char *pcszEnvVarBase, uint32_t fDestFlags,
103 uint32_t cMaxEntriesPerGroup, uint32_t cHistory,
104 uint32_t uHistoryFileTime, uint64_t uHistoryFileSize,
105 char *pszError, size_t cbError);
106
107} /* namespace com */
108
109#endif
110
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