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Re: services not starting with 20060104 snapshot
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Brett Serkez wrote:
> > Frankly, I'm not sure what the right fix would be in this case, or
> > even how to debug this... Any ideas on how I can simulate service
> > startup on the command line (to allow popping up gdb) would be greatly
> > appreciated.
>
> Try using a graphical debugger like ddd or insight. Should be able to
> start either as the service,
Huh? No, that doesn't work. I need a service wrapper program (like
cygrunsrv), but cygrunsrv can't spawn processes, apparently.
> which start the actual service under debug control and open the X
> display for interaction, allowing debug of the service. From the issue
> your trying to debug, not sure if the debugger itself would effect the
> behavior.
The other problem is that the debugger does not call service_main, as the
SCM does, so the behavior *is* different.
Igor
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