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Ian Beaumont commented on DAEMON-258:
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I'm not sure that a separate refresh thread is the solution to this problem.
The problem is that if a user uses the "windows service control panel" to start
a service (not the Apache service configuration window) - then the service will
immediately report itself as "started" in the control panel.
Will the separate refresh thread be able to update the status in the "windows
service control panel"? (I'm not sure that is possible).
The way other windows services work is that they will show "starting", and only
return a state of "Started" on successful completion of the service starting.
> prunsrv to block until start method returns
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> Key: DAEMON-258
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DAEMON-258
> Project: Commons Daemon
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Procrun
> Affects Versions: 1.0.10
> Environment: Windows all versions
> Reporter: Ian Beaumont
> Priority: Minor
> Original Estimate: 168h
> Remaining Estimate: 168h
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> Currently, when starting a windows service from the service control panel
> based on prunsrv using the JVM.dll the start method is called in a separate
> thread. Upon calling this thread, the service is marked as "started" in the
> service control panel. This is confusing, as if something goes wrong in the
> program start-up sequence (e.g. a database connection is unavailable) then
> the program will fail to start successfully but the user will not get any
> indication of this (they have to press "refresh" in the windows services
> window to see the service failed to start).
> It would be better to have an option to report the "service" as "starting"
> while the "start" method is running and only when the method returns, mark
> the service as "started" or "stopped" depending on a return code from the
> "start" method.
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