On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, The One wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The C program runs fine in Dos prompt or Cygwin Shell.
> When run as a service, it's not working. The service
> is started without error. The program checks for
> files in a directory, if there's a file it will print
> to the network printer by calling
> fopen("//computername/printer", "w"). I'm finding out
> the when it's running as a service, fopen is returning
> NULL.
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.shares>.
It also helps to check the errno after fopen returns NULL.
HTH,
Igor
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