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Created November 16, 2010 00:06
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GetUserName windows api call via haskell's FFI!
{-# LANGUAGE ForeignFunctionInterface #-}
import System.Win32.Types
import Foreign
import Foreign.C
foreign import stdcall unsafe "windows.h GetUserNameW"
c_GetUserName :: LPTSTR -> LPDWORD -> IO Bool
getUserName :: IO String
getUserName =
allocaArray 512 $ \ c_str -> do
with 512 $ \ c_len -> do
failIfFalse_ "GetUserName" $ c_GetUserName c_str c_len
peekTString c_str
-- ghci -ladvapi32
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