Re: ipc-daemon cannot run as an NT service under latest Cygwin CVS

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From: s0lao(at)netscape(dot)net (S(dot) L(dot))
To: jason(at)tishler(dot)net (Jason Tishler), cedric(dot)dufour(at)freesurf(dot)ch (Cdric Dufour)
Cc: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org, cygwin(at)cygwin(dot)com (Cygwin)
Subject: Re: ipc-daemon cannot run as an NT service under latest Cygwin CVS
Date: 2002-08-06 11:35:55
Message-ID: 65E9456D.5C6C5A8A.00013D13@netscape.net
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Jason,
[...]
>> 1. 'ipc-daemon --install-as-service' doesn't seem to work on Windows
>> XP (it generates a timeout error when trying to start the service ->
[...]
[...]
>I just determined that I cannot run cygipc's ipc-daemon directly as an
>NT service with Cygwin DLLs after 1.3.12 even under Windows 2000. What
>version of Cygwin are you using (i.e., uname -a)? Are you using a post
>1.3.12 snapshot or CVS?
^^^^^^
[...]

If I remeber well, Charles Wilson, the maintainer of the ipc-daemon made a post on the cygwin mail list after the initial release of the 1.3.12 version of the dll (which he rejected, but ... :).

SLao

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From: Jason Tishler <jason(at)tishler(dot)net>
To: "S(dot) L(dot)" <s0lao(at)netscape(dot)net>
Cc: Cédric Dufour <cedric(dot)dufour(at)freesurf(dot)ch>, pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org, Cygwin <cygwin(at)cygwin(dot)com>
Subject: Re: ipc-daemon cannot run as an NT service under latest
Date: 2002-08-07 19:01:25
Message-ID: 20020807190125.GB2228@tishler.net
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SLao,

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 07:35:55AM -0400, S. L. wrote:
> >I just determined that I cannot run cygipc's ipc-daemon directly as an
> >NT service with Cygwin DLLs after 1.3.12 even under Windows 2000. What
> >version of Cygwin are you using (i.e., uname -a)? Are you using a post
> >1.3.12 snapshot or CVS?
> ^^^^^^
> [...]
>
> If I remeber well, Charles Wilson, the maintainer of the ipc-daemon
> made a post on the cygwin mail list after the initial release of the
> 1.3.12 version of the dll (which he rejected, but ... :).

The above is unrelated. I tracked down the problem and Thomas Pfaff
provided a patch. If interested, see the following mailing list threads
for the details:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2002-08/msg00050.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2002-q3/msg00235.html

Jason