On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:17:49 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 6 11:57, Rainer Hochreiter wrote: >> well, are there any guidelines how to submit patches and describing >> ChangeLog syntax available? > > http://cygwin.com/contrib.html, section "When you have finalized your changes"
thanks for the link - i'll have a look at it! > Just ignore the hint to send patches to the cygwin-patches list. > >> right! but if using ChangeServiceConfig2() is prohibited, why not writing >> also directly to registry? > > Erm?!? Of course you should write directly to the registry. That's how > writing the description field is implemented to stay NT4 compatible. So > just copy the behaviour for writing the actions parameter. but who guarantees that writing directly to the registry will be compliant to upcoming windows version? this will also be a problem for all the other config parameters written by cygrunsrv! >> ok, maybe there is no public documentation >> available for that. what i found out is, that SCM writes into a key named >> 'FailureActions' of type REG_BINARY. anyone out here, who knows what to write >> there? best would be the source of the sc.exe command ;-) > > I guess the easy way is to use ChangeServiceConfig2 with different > arguments and look what it creates as result. hm, reverse-engineering? sounds great ;-) rainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/