Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/06/01/19:57:42
Hi All...
>From: Fred Yankowski <fred AT ontosys DOT com>
>To: Karl M <karlm30 AT hotmail DOT com>
>CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>Subject: Re: cygrunsrv fails to start
>Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:23:24 -0500
>
>I would suggest adding some trace statements that write to a file
>rather than depending on the syslog facility. I would put one right
>after the entry to main() to see if the process is even entered. Be
>sure to flush() the trace output after each message in case the
>process aborts and loses buffered output. I would put another trace
>message at the point where StartServiceCtrlDispatcherA() fails in
>main(). Then I'd put another right after the entry to service_main().
Can you give me something real specific here (an example of the file open,
write and flush)? If you give me a starting point, I can adapt.
>It looks like failure of StartServiceCtrlDispatcherA() would not be
>reported currently, given that error() writes to stderr and that
>stream is useless in this case. However, it's hard to see how that
>API could fail in some cases and not others.
We could at least print out a pass/fail indication if it ever returns and
print the error code.
>Your questions about possible problems in loading the cygwin1.dll
>occurred to me too, but I don't know anywhere near enough about Cygwin
>to suggest how to explore that possibility.
Anyone else have ideas?
Thanks,
...Karl
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