Re: NT service design choices

Jason Tishler <Jason.Tishler@dothill.com> writes:
>> The last three would seem to be generally useful additions to cygrunsrv
>> anyway.  I'm not sure what you mean by "dependency on other services".

> The SCM will use this information to start/stop services in the right
> order on system startup/shutdown or to automatically start a dependency
> if it is not currently running.  For example, the Cygwin PostgreSQL
> (i.e., postmaster) service is dependent on cygipc's ipc-daemon service.

OK ... then that qualifies as a generically useful feature also,
I should think.  Surely that's not the only part of the Cygwin Unix
emulation that's run as a service?

            regards, tom lane