James Hawkins wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Paul Vriens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Christopher wrote: >> > Maarten Lankhorst wrote: >> >> Hi Christopher, >> >> >> >> 2008/3/12, Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> >> >>> 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.
