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

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov 23 22:34, Christian Franke wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
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> >[...]
> > /* foo */
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> ;-)
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> 
> Sorry, I have no time now to answer in detail, let net new patch speak 
> for itself ;-)
> 
> http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/cygrunsrv-pidfile-patch-1.txt
> 
> Stale .pid file is now removed on exit of cygrunsrv (Testcase: syslogd 
> itself)
> All other issues changed as requested.

Cool.

> Open issue: signals are blocked in waitanypid().

I'll have a look into it, but I'm fairly busy at the moment.

> 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.  The fact that logging using syslogd works at
all is pretty new, introduced with 1.5.16 or 1.5.17.


Thanks,
Corinna

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