patch cygrunsrv for running native win32 applications

[Danilo Turina]

Ooops...

I use cygrunsrv to run Mercury32 (that, in addition to be a Win32 
Applicatio, is not a console application) and it works.

Is there maybe some counter-effect that I don't know?

Ciao,

		Danilo

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 12 23:23, Gunnar Thielebein wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>Is it also possible to patch the cygrunsrv service installer for running
>>native win32.exe? Means like if you run a windows command/app in bash is
>>executed there must be also a way to do it in cygrunsrv.
>>I know there are extra utilities for windows like srvany but i like the
>>command line interface of cygrunsrv much more and want to know how much
>>efforts it would take for adding this feature
> 
> 
> cygrunsrv was specificially created to run Cygwin applications.  For
> instance, it expects that the inferior application has an idea what a
> POSIX signal is.  That said, it would be possible to allow native Windows
> apps to run under cygrunsrv, but it doesn't really look worth the effort,
> given that *useful* native Windows tools for manipulating services are
> available, like the on-board tool "sc".
> 
> Otherwise, if you're still interested to change cygrunsrv:
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC
> 
> 
> 
> Corinna
> 


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