error setting up ipc-daemon

[Charles Wilson]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> An excerpt from "cygrunsrv --help" below
> 
>   -e, --env <VAR=VALUE>     Optional environment strings which are added
>                             to the environment when service is started.
>                             You can add up to 255 environment strings using
>                             the `--env' option.
>                             Note: /bin is always added to $PATH to allow all
>                             started applications to find at least cygwin1.dll.
> 
> shows that you shouldn't really need to add c:\cygwin\bin to your system
> path (if one uses cygrunsrv, that is).  If that is not the case, then it's
> a bug in cygrunsrv (or an error in documentation).

That's all well and good -- but ipc-daemon doesn't use cygserver.  It 
has all the necessary hooks for ServiceManager itself.

I should probably rip out that stuff eventually, and rely on cygserver. 
  But since ipc-daemon will be replaced by the cygwin-daemon, someday, I 
really don't want to mess with it if it isn't broken.

As far as the actual difficulties here, I think it's probably an 
environment issue; ipc-deamon MUST have cygwin1.dll in its user context 
PATH.  See /usr/doc/Cygwin/cygipc/README.

--Chuck


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