X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:47:07 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Brett Serkez cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: services not starting with 20060104 snapshot In-Reply-To: <1136421144.30911.251110210@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: References: <20060104125229.GA3376@efn.org> <43BC2659.9060709@acm.org> <20060104203344.GA18306@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <1136421144.30911.251110210@webmail.messagingengine.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Brett Serkez wrote: > > Frankly, I'm not sure what the right fix would be in this case, or > > even how to debug this... Any ideas on how I can simulate service > > startup on the command line (to allow popping up gdb) would be greatly > > appreciated. > > Try using a graphical debugger like ddd or insight. Should be able to > start either as the service, Huh? No, that doesn't work. I need a service wrapper program (like cygrunsrv), but cygrunsrv can't spawn processes, apparently. > which start the actual service under debug control and open the X > display for interaction, allowing debug of the service. From the issue > your trying to debug, not sure if the debugger itself would effect the > behavior. The other problem is that the debugger does not call service_main, as the SCM does, so the behavior *is* different. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/