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Re: Suggest cygrunsrv extension: --pidfile option (patch included)


On Nov 24 15:03, Christian Franke wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Open issue: signals are blocked in waitanypid().
> > 
> > I'll have a look into it, but I'm fairly busy at the moment.
> 
> If the --pidfile option is used, signals sent to cygrunsrv will not be
> routed to service because cygrunsrv is blocked in WaitForSingleObject().
> This is IMO a minor issue than can be left open in an initial release.

Oh, right.  That should be solvable in future by adding another
cygwin_internal() option.

> > > OffTopic: Is there any event message file available for cygwin apps
> > > writing to syslog if syslogd is not running ?
> > > I can provide one if you want.
> > 
> > Huh?  If syslogd is not running, the logs are written either to the
> > Application event log (NT) or to C:\\CYGWIN_SYSLOG.TXT (9x).  That's
> > implemented since eons.  [...]
> 
> Yes, and since eons the windows event viewer complains about a missing
> "event message file" when viewing messages generated by Cygwin apps ;-) 

Argh, again I misinterpreted what you said, as you might have noticed.
Brian has answered that.


Corinna

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