Re: [coLinux-devel] enhanced service support for colinux daemon

[Tony B. <bie...@bi...>]

Dan Aloni wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:11:10PM -0400, Daniel R. Slater wrote:
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>>I submit for your approval some changes to the service options for the
>>colinux-daemon. I have made it NOT try to install the linux.sys driver when
>>it runs as a service - this allows the colinux service to run under a
>>non-privileged account NetworkServices.
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>>Dan,
>>  Take a look at this and let me know what you think. I apologize for my
>>indenting not being consistent with your existing indentation. It has been a
>>long time since I've used emacs and I don't know how to set emacs
>>indentation and TAB options.
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>In the last snapshot I've merged your changes, but I've also reorginized
>and rewritten src/colinux/os/winnt/user/daemon while changing some semantics.
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>The default service name is now 'Cooperative Linux'. Also, the names of the 
>command line switches for its management are now --install-service and 
>--remove-service in order to be in line with --install-driver and 
>--remove-driver.
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>The driver now knows whether if it was loaded by the daemon or by 
>--install-driver / system boot. In the case where it was loaded by the daemon, 
>it sets lazy_unload to PFALSE which means that it will also unload the driver 
>when it ends running. This is plainly for convinence.
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Dan and Daniel,

I've downloaded the latest coLinux snapshot and am going to modify the 
coLinux service manager app to run coLinux  as  a service using these 
new methods you've implemented.

Tony Bierman