services not starting with 20060104 snapshot

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:21:37PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>
>>>FWIW, I have only tested this with a self-built DLL, not the snapshot.
>>>Will do so shortly.
>>
>>Make sure that you update to the latest CVS.  I made some other changes
>>last night.  I don't see how they could resurrect this problem but, who
>>knows?
> 
> 
> I did.  I'm current with CVS.  Everything still works.  Just to be very
> sure, I've also tried with the latest official snapshot (200601051745) --
> no problems, services start normally.


Yeah, I may be more out-of-date with XP SP1 than you.  Or maybe it's
something else. ;-)


> Larry, try completely commenting out the first if test in
> fhandler_console::set_console_state_for_spawn().  If that restores the
> functionality for you, look for related changes.  It's possible that the
> CreateWindowStation(NULL, ...) actually fails on your machine, and doesn't
> on mine.  Are you running as a privileged user?


Yes, I am.  No dice on the above commenting out of the if test.

It appears your supposition is right.  The first call to CreateWindowStation()
fails for me.  Reason = "Access is denied".  So there is some weird
permissions problem.  I'll see if I can find something...


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