Re: cygwin-services-helper [was: Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1]

[Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 27 00:34, Charles Wilson wrote:
> > [snip]
>
> Wow, thanks for the quick implementation.  Unfortunately I won't have
> time to look into this for now since I have to look into a Win2K problem
> with network paths.

No problem. I just wanted to see how hard it was going to be -- and 
since it was my suggestions: money, meet mouth.  Turns' out it wasn't 
really that hard at all to extract the necessary bits. (He says, having 
done zero testing...)

>         (4a) rewrite syslog-ng-config to use it

Okay, thanks.

> But actually, services which don't have to switch user accounts don't
> really need it.

True, unless you want to create an unprivileged user for the service 
(unless, post-XP, even LocalSystem is considered "unprivileged"?)
> Erm... why are all these functions called "csh_foo"?  "Cygwin SHell"?
> It sounds so much as if these functions are csh functions.  Maybe
> "cf" or "cyg" would be a better prefix?

Cygwin-Services-Helper.

Since this is a function library that will be sourced into other 
scripts, I was trying to make sure it was, as far as possible, namespace 
 clean: prefixes on all function names and public variables, ensure to 
label function-local vars as 'local' so they don't "leak", etc.

--
Chuck