Win32 API Error reporting and handling Error reported with additional information on failure and success
Example
Some API calls can succeed or fail in more than one way. The APIs commonly return additional information for both successful invocations as well as errors (e.g. CreateMutex).
if ( CreateMutexW( NULL, TRUE, L"Global\\MyNamedMutex" ) == NULL ) {
// Failure: get additional information.
DWORD dwError = GetLastError();
} else {
// Success: Determine which mutex was returned.
if ( GetLastError() == ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS ) {
// Existing mutex object returned.
} else {
// Newly created mutex object returned.
}
}
