service interact with desktop broken between: 1.5.5 & 1.5.19

[Steven Hartland]

No one got any ideas why this has been broken?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk>


> We've been using 1.5.5 for a good long while now and
> have had cause to upgrade. Everything apart from service
> interact with desktop is working. I've dug as much as I
> can but found nothing. The pervious working version was
> 1.5.5 and the new version 1.5.19. I've attached cygcheck
> for both.
> 
> Originally I thought it must be something related to
> cygrunsvr but even replacing that with the version from
> 1.5.5 makes no difference so it must be something more
> core that I'm missing.
> 
> I think I had a similar problem before with 1.5.5 which
> got round by using a services which started cmd first see
> example below.
> 
> The overall objective is to run a perl script on the desktop
> that doesn't log to file just displays its output in a normal
> console.
> 
> I've tried the following combinations:
> 
> cygrunsrv -I test \
>   -j -i -d "CYGWIN test" \
>   -p /tmp/test.pl \
>   -e "CYGWIN=ntsec" \
>   -e "BASH_ENV=~/.bashrc"
> 
> **used to work in 1.5.5**
> cygrunsrv -I test \
>   -j -i -d "CYGWIN test" \
>   -p `cygpath $COMSPEC` \
>   -a "/c bash -c /tmp/test.pl" \
>   -e "CYGWIN=ntsec" \
>   -e "BASH_ENV=~/.bashrc"
> 
> N.B. -j doesn't seem to have any affect and wasn't used in 1.5.5
> 
> Any ideas what might be causing this or how to fix it?


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