Diagnosing W2K service bugreports

[William A. Rowe, Jr.]

I've noticed something very interesting in the Win32 code.

Services gain no stdin/out/err handles as the parent is launched.
I suspected this could be confusing perl56.dll when it tries to
clean up before stopping the service.  That appears to _not_ be
the issue.  But there is a bug report, 7198 [hope I don't transpose
the digits yet again :-] that indicates the system fails on dup2(stdin)
when the user tries to use rotatelogs.  Now I've come up with the
following patch that introduces "NUL" handles for win32 stdin/stdout,
and the stderr is already set to a pipe that captures all 'pre-logging'
fprintf(stderr...) stuff into the event log.

Here's the code I'm suggesting we include in 1.3.19 that resolves the
spawning rotatelogs bug after I test on NT (it's already tested on Win2K):

Index: service.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/apache-1.3/src/os/win32/service.c,v
retrieving revision 1.44
diff -u -r1.44 service.c
--- service.c 2001/02/21 00:36:38 1.44
+++ service.c 2001/02/24 21:00:13
@@ -547,6 +547,7 @@
     HANDLE hCurrentProcess;
     HANDLE hPipeRead = NULL;
     HANDLE hPipeReadDup;
+    HANDLE hNullFile;
     DWORD  threadid;
     SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES sa = {0};
     char **newargv;
@@ -601,6 +602,46 @@
             CloseHandle(eventlog_pipewrite);
             eventlog_pipewrite = NULL;
         }            
+    }
+
+    /* Open a null handle to spoof our stdin */
+    hNullFile = CreateFile("nul", GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE, 
+                           FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE, 
+                           &sa, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, NULL);
+    if (hNullFile == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
+        ap_log_error(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_WIN32ERROR | APLOG_CRIT, NULL,
+                     "Parent: Unable to create null stdin pipe for this service 
+process.\n");
+    }
+    else {
+        int fh;
+        FILE *fl;
+        fflush(stdin);
+        SetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE, hNullFile);
+        fh = _open_osfhandle((long) STD_INPUT_HANDLE, 
+                             _O_WRONLY | _O_BINARY);
+        dup2(fh, STDIN_FILENO);
+        fl = _fdopen(STDIN_FILENO, "wcb");
+        memcpy(stdin, fl, sizeof(FILE));
+    }
+
+    /* Open a null handle to soak our stdout */
+    hNullFile = CreateFile("nul", GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE, 
+                           FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE, 
+                           &sa, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, NULL);
+    if (hNullFile == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
+        ap_log_error(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_WIN32ERROR | APLOG_CRIT, NULL,
+                     "Parent: Unable to create null stdout pipe for this service 
+process.\n");
+    }
+    else {
+        int fh;
+        FILE *fl;
+        fflush(stdout);
+        SetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE, hNullFile);
+        fh = _open_osfhandle((long) STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE, 
+                             _O_WRONLY | _O_BINARY);
+        dup2(fh, STDOUT_FILENO);
+        fl = _fdopen(STDOUT_FILENO, "wcb");
+        memcpy(stdout, fl, sizeof(FILE));
     }
 
     atexit(service_main_fn_terminate);