X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 00:24:51 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: services not starting with 20060104 snapshot In-Reply-To: <20060106051122.GA7778@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: References: <43BDB8B0.8070600@cygwin.com> <20060106005917.GA1937@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <43BDC7E5.1070809@cygwin.com> <20060106015259.GC1937@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <43BDCFCC.2090305@cygwin.com> <20060106023407.GE1937@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20060106025531.GG1937@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <43BDE36A.9000903@cygwin.com> <43BDE61E.1000103@cygwin.com> <43BDEC67.8050506@cygwin.com> <20060106051122.GA7778@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> 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 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 11:04:55PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > >Chris, you asleep? Good. No need to disturb a good night's sleep with > >some bad news. > > > >I figured out why it didn't work for me the first time and why it did > >after that. I think I'm finally up-to-speed with what these two > >competing blocks of code do to create this issue. ;-) For all those > >wondering (does anybody still have the strength to keep reading this > >thread? ;-) ), the first time I tried it, sshd could not interact with > >the desktop. With Chris's patch and this switch off, I see no extra > >consoles and no output from 'ssh localhost date'. Turning on desktop > >interaction for sshd and restarting the service, I see no extra > >consoles and I get output from 'ssh localhost date'. It's all so > >obvious now. ;-) > > > >So there is still a problem (but a less than appetizing workaround). > > I'm still awake. I'm trying to create a SP1 version of Win XP from an > extra copy of XP that I have sitting around. So much for getting some sleep tonight... > I didn't anticipate that this would have different effects based on > whether the service was allowed to interact with the desktop or not. I > may be able to work around that fact. FWIW, I ran all my prior tests on services that didn't interact with the desktop. Changing the sshd service to interact with the desktop did indeed pop up a console window when sshd asked for a password. > The reason for ignoring the argument in set_console_state_for_spawn is > that I think the CreateWindowStation function always has to be called > regardless of whether it's a non-cygwin process or not. Well, I'm willing to run some tests (it only takes about 6 minutes to rebuild the DLL)... :-) Let me know. 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/