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? >
programs/services It could then be started on demand by wineboot and/or the advapi32 services functions. I was planning to work on this after my endpoint mapper patches are accepted. -- Rob Shearman