Running services in WINE?

[James Hawkins]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Paul Vriens <paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Christopher wrote:
>  > Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>  >> Hi Christopher,
>  >>
>  >> 2008/3/12, Christopher <raccoonone at procyongames.com>:
>  >>
>  >>> 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.

-- 
James Hawkins