X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-Id: <1136427122.29514.251115414@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: "Brett Serkez" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060104125229.GA3376@efn.org> <43BC2659.9060709@acm.org> <20060104203344.GA18306@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <1136421144.30911.251110210@webmail.messagingengine.com> Subject: Re: services not starting with 20060104 snapshot In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 21:12:02 -0500 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 > > 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. I see. While I've not used this method with services per se, I've used it with other background processes, didn't foresee the service_main. You should be able attach to the running service process with gdb, from the manual: You can, instead, specify a process ID as a second argument, if you want to debug a running process: gdb(1,4) program 1234 The trick is where will the program be when you attach. To resolve this, code *like* the following can be inserted just prior to the point you want to start debugging: { int a = 1; while ( a ) ; } When you gain control you will be in the while, assign a value of 0 to a and then start stepping thru the remaining code. Brett ---------------------------------------------------------------- Brett C. Serkez, Techie -- 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/