Greetings, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]!
> I can't find a similar problem reported earlier, so please excuse the question
> if it looks familiar.
> We have a software package that installs like a miniature CYGWIN deployment
> (basically, only cygwin1.dll and just a few other libraries in /bin
> along with cygrunsrv.exe), and there are no shells.
> cygrunsrv.exe is used to register and launch a Windows service with a binary
> located under "/opt/..." (which is a ported UNIX server). The binary is
> started
> just fine, but when it tries to fork(), it gets the error 0xC0000135 (w/
> errno=11,
> EAGAIN). I traced it down to the fact that before fork() there is chdir("/")
> in
> that server binary. Can it be the reason for the failed fork() that it can
> no longer
> find cygwin1.dll? Unfortunately, I can't extend Windows PATH to include the
> CYGWIN /bin directory (because the cygrunsrv runs under an unmanaged service
> account). Is there any other fix?
Add cygwin1.dll to the list of known system libraries.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths
May help.
But this doesn't change the fact that the server SHOULD NOT unconditionally
change the CWD to the ROOT of a file system.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 30.10.2013, <10:44>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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