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WMIQUERY anomaly

May
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If I ask for exactly the number of items available, I get them. If I ask for more than is available, I don't get an error message for the first failure. Starting at index 0 doesn't help (and causes the first item to be returned twice).
Code:
v:\> do i=1 to 7 ( echo %i &  wmiquery . "SELECT StartTime from Win32_logonsession" %i )
1
20140611115217.443054-240
2
20140719191920.059415-240
3
20140715105813.866117-240
4
20140611115217.427453-240
5
6
Error (SYS): Incorrect function.
7
Error (SYS): Incorrect function.
 
I was using WMIQUERY to help debug an app of my own so I can (vaguely) guess what might be happening (because I was bitten by it).
Say there are 4 objects available and I (as TCC user) ask for the 5th one. If TCC first asks for 4, that will succeed. If it then asks for the next (IEnumWbemClassObject::Next) 1, hr will be WBEM_S_FALSE which is > 0 and does not trigger the FAILED(hr) test. OTOH, if I ask for the 6th (or later) one and TCC first asks for 5 (or more), you'll get the WBEM_S_FALSE earlier (and you're apparently catching it in that case)
(Or something like that).
 
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