Running services in WINE?
Christopher
raccoonone at procyongames.com
Fri Mar 14 14:14:59 CDT 2008
Paul Vriens wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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
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