Thread: Re: ipc-daemon cannot run as an NT service under latest Cygwin CVS

Jason,
[...]
>> 1. 'ipc-daemon --install-as-service' doesn't seem to work on Windows
>> XP (it generates a timeout error when trying to start the service ->
[...]
[...]
>I just determined that I cannot run cygipc's ipc-daemon directly as an
>NT service with Cygwin DLLs after 1.3.12 even under Windows 2000.  What
>version of Cygwin are you using (i.e., uname -a)?  Are you using a post
>1.3.12 snapshot or CVS?
 ^^^^^^
[...]

If I remeber well, Charles Wilson, the maintainer of the ipc-daemon made a post on the cygwin mail list after the
initialrelease of the 1.3.12 version of the dll (which he rejected, but ... :). 

SLao


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SLao,

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 07:35:55AM -0400, S. L. wrote:
> >I just determined that I cannot run cygipc's ipc-daemon directly as an
> >NT service with Cygwin DLLs after 1.3.12 even under Windows 2000.  What
> >version of Cygwin are you using (i.e., uname -a)?  Are you using a post
> >1.3.12 snapshot or CVS?
>  ^^^^^^
> [...]
>
> If I remeber well, Charles Wilson, the maintainer of the ipc-daemon
> made a post on the cygwin mail list after the initial release of the
> 1.3.12 version of the dll (which he rejected, but ... :).

The above is unrelated.  I tracked down the problem and Thomas Pfaff
provided a patch.  If interested, see the following mailing list threads
for the details:

    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2002-08/msg00050.html
    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2002-q3/msg00235.html

Jason