Paul Vriens wrote: > James Hawkins wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Paul Vriens >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Christopher wrote: >>> > Maarten Lankhorst wrote: >>> >> Hi Christopher, >>> >> >>> >> 2008/3/12, Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >> >>> >>> I've been trying to get MozyHome working on WINE, and have made >>> a little >>> >>> progress. However, it seems that the service which Mozy uses >>> won't >>> >>> start. Searching a bit I found a thread from a year ago >>> stating that >>> >>> services don't work in WINE, but that it was being worked on. Are >>> >>> services implemented in WINE now, or if they're not is someone >>> working >>> >>> on it who I could help out? >>> >>> >>> >> Services most definitely work now. Some of them you can start >>> manually >>> >> with "wine net start 'servicename'", however this shouldn't be >>> needed. >>> >> >>> >> Cheers, >>> >> Maarten. >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> > Thanks Maarten! >>> > I tried that, but didn't have anymore luck. The service exits almost >>> > immediately, after giving a few fixme messages. Time to do some >>> > debugging I guess :) >>> > >>> > Christopher >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> I've been looking into this and found an issue in Wine that I'm not >>> sure who to >>> test or solve yet. >>> >>> MozyHome creates a key in the Services branch: >>> >>> System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\mozybackup >>> >>> It than adds a 'Description' value to this key. >>> >>> A bit later it checks for the service by doing an OpenService. This >>> succeeds on >>> Wine but shouldn't. >>> >>> I've created a simple test that creates the key and some value in >>> it. Doing an >>> OpenService fails every time on Windows. >>> >>> I took another approach whereby I created a proper service >>> (CreateService) and >>> checked whether I could do an OpenService. This succeeded every >>> time even after >>> deleting the whole key. >>> >>> What it boils down to is that the service control manager keeps >>> track of the >>> services. Only proper service calls can influence the service >>> control manager >>> (or a reboot). >>> >>> So as long as we don't implement some service control manager >>> functionality >>> (services.exe?) we could have some issues as with MozyHome. >>> >>> One approach we could take while we don't have the full >>> functionality is to >>> check for the minimal required parameters (value) we need for a >>> service. Would >>> that be acceptable? >>> >>> I think Maarten's patch for CreateService was along those same lines >>> >>> (http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commit;h=284f86183cce638ff8fce4023cb76273e979aa09). >>> >>> >>> We need to find a better way of checking whether a service is truly >>> installed. >>> (and not just some registry keys). >>> >> >> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11651#c3 >> >> but generally comments 2-4. >> > It's good we came to same conclusion. > > If we wanted to implemented a SCM where would that reside? wineboot? > > Cheers, > > Paul. > > If one of you (or anyone else) works on implementing a SCM, I'd love to help. I don't think I could do it on my own, but I can certainly lend a hand if someone with more experience can tell me what needs to be done.
Christopher
