Running services in WINE?

[Paul Vriens]

James Hawkins wrote:
> 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.
> 
It's good we came to same conclusion.

If we wanted to implemented a SCM where would that reside? wineboot?

Cheers,

Paul.