Hi,

this is a feature request for golang.org/x/sys. Not sure, if I have to open a proposal.

Sending logs tough golang.org/x/sys/windows/svc/eventlog are every limited. Windows has a builtin translation table based on the event id. The Log messages sent by golang.org/x/sys/windows/svc/eventlog are only viewable by the Details tab, since a translated message will be displayed in front of it.

However, Windows has a generic error message ('%1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9') defined as event id 3299 which looks suitable for generic log messages.

Ref: https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata/blob/2f3c5282ce1024a712aeccd90d3aa50bf7a49e27/generation/WinSDK/RecompiledIdlHeaders/um/LMErrlog.h#L824-L845

Other software components like Apache Web Server are using this event id for years:

https://github.com/apache/httpd/blob/7b12bfc7fe4f2b1a074f6818638c77b949d4acd9/server/mpm/winnt/nt_eventlog.c#L94-L95

However, the methods Info, Warn, Error of (golang.org/x/sys/windows/svc/eventlog).Log accepted only one string as argument and
(golang.org/x/sys/windows/svc/eventlog).report force 1 for the numStrings argument.

This results into messages like this:

It would be great, if golang.org/x/sys/windows/svc/eventlog would support sending events with 9 strings.
Using the generic error messages requires numStrings 9 as documented in LMErrlog.h

// The call to NetErrorWrite must set nstrings = 9, and provide 9
// ASCIIZ strings. If the caller does not have 9 insertion strings,
// provide null strings for the empty insertion strings.