Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/12/02/16:01:54
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Peter wrote:
> Thanks for your quick reply. It gives me a bit more to think about; I
> don't really know my way around cygwin/*nux that well, from the
> administrative end; I've just been an end user for a long time.
>
> > How exactly do you invoke screen? Does "setsid" work for you? Does
> > "nohup"? IIRC, bash also has an option for controlling whether
> > background processes are terminated on exit...
>
> How will I know whether setsid is working? I tried setting the setuid
> bits via chmod, but I don't know what I'm doing other than that. I'll
> try nohup and look through the shell documentation for options. I'm
> either invoking screen from the command line as my user, or as SYSTEM
> (by scheduling a cmd window with the NT "at" command). This works okay,
> but the process does not persist.
"setsid" is a program like "nohup" that dissociates a process from the
console. It has nothing to do with the setuid bit.
> I've tried running it as a service like so:
> cygrunsrv -I screen -p /usr/local/bin/screen -a '-d -m'
> cygrunsrv -S screen
>
> I get the hanging, plus it runs as SYSTEM unless I add the options to
> run it as myself. Now that I think of it, perhaps I need to add -i for
> interactive; I'll try that.
You might also run something that'll switch user context before running
screen (e.g., su).
> > What is the error message when screen runs as SYSTEM? I suspect it's
> > a fifo permission issue...
>
> I haven't figured out how to get the error messages out of cygrunsrv
> processes, but I should be able to figure that out and get back to you.
By default cygrunsrv logs program output to /var/log/PROGRAM.log and to
the Windows Event Log. Check in both places.
> I know that it runs okay up to a point as SYSTEM because it creates a
> new S-SYSTEM directory in /tmp/uscreens and creates fifos there (which I
> can investigate post hoc by taking control of the directory).
Does "chmod 666 /tmp/uscreens/S-SYSTEM/*" help?
> > As for hanging does it consume CPU at all? Try attaching to the
> > process with strace and seeing where it hangs.
>
> Will do.
>
> > If you wish for others to try reproducing your behavior, please post
> > the "minor changes" you mentioned above (as a patch).
>
> Here you go. Like I said: very minor changes. More intelligent changes
> are almost certainly possible, but I don't really have time to read
> through the source code and figure things out much more. Have other
> people done more meticulous patching? Most patches I googled are now
> 404.
Thanks, I'll try to build with this patch later.
Hope you get screen working correctly. Once you're able to do that,
please consider contributing screen as a Cygwin package. See the
"Contributing" section of the Cygwin web page for details.
Igor
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