Re: [Firebird-devel] instsvc and multiple service instance names

[Dmitry Y. <fir...@ya...>]

Paul Reeves wrote:
> 
> The question is - Do we modify 'instsvc q[uery]' to display all the 
> instances or do we add a new parameter and leave the old behaviour 
> intact? (The old behaviour is to just display the status of the 
> DefaultInstance.)
> 
> Personally, I think we should change the behaviour of q[uery] and use it 
> to display all installed instances. This is because instsvc is an O/S 
> level utility. By this I mean any installed copy of instsvc can be used 
> to control any installed Firebird service. The current behaviour of 
> 'instsvc q' is just to display the status of the DefaultInstance. This 
> is confusing if the user expects to see information concerning a 
> non-default instance.

If the user expects that why doesn't he specify the instance name in the 
command line?


Dmitry