Re: [ros-dev] Service Control Manager, Plug and Pray, SMB and RPC

[Eric Kohl]

Steven Edwards wrote:

>   Yes those are most of the functions I need for CoLinux
> and the Windows Installer service. Wine has
>  a good bit of that implemented using a pipe for communitcation but I assume on Windows
> its all
>  LPC/RPC to support "net start servicename". Anyway if no one objects I will
> look at importing the
>  hackish Wine code and see if I can make it work. 
Sure! I can replace the frontend  code by a proper RPC implementation 
when WIDL and rpcrt4 are ready for use. But since we also need a working 
backend (service management code) it is a good idea to borrow that from 
Wine.


Regards,
Eric