Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] fork/exec patch

Magnus Hagander wrote:

>
>>BTW, is anyone working on building in code to run as a
>>service? Or do we
>>plan to use a service wrapper?
>
>
> I think custom code will be needed. It could be in the form of a wrapper
> or in the form of integrated code. But if you use one of the general
> wrappers, it's going to be hard to teach it to send signals to the
> postmaster in the way we want (regardless of which method is chosen for
> signals)
>

Right. I expect we'll need 3 extra command line switches: one to install
as a service, one to remove the service, and one to run as a service. Or
possibly a small wrapper for the install/remove part, plus one extra
command switch.


> But it's probably best to just get it up and running on a command prompt
> first :-)
>

Indeed.

Another question: do we plan to use the Windows event log instead of or
as well as syslog?

cheers

andrew