[Mongrel] Mongrel as Windows service with normal privileges

[Ingmar Stieger]

I digged a bit through the source code, and I am under the impression 
that a normal user may not query the service control manager with 
PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION. Could this be the case ?

_process_name does not return the name and _process_name_dyn_psapi fails 
as well. (tested with 0.3.1 and 0.3.3). It looks like OpenProcess can 
not be used in this manner...

In a totally unrelated project [1] I solved what I think you are trying 
to do here differently:
I just pass the parameter "-runservice" from SCM in order to determine 
if the application should run as service (called from SCM) or as a 
normal console application. Maybe this would be an easier approach for 
mongrel_service as well ?

I would create a proof of concept, but unfortunately, I am not 
proficient with FreeBasic...

Bye,
Ingmar

[1] http://www.nwnx.org

Ingmar Stieger wrote:
> CurrentPID: 5108
> ParentPID: 512
> Error with OpenProcess
> GetLastError: 0The operation completed successfully.
> Parent Name:
> ServiceController.RunMode() done
> ServiceHost() destructor
> ServiceHost() destructor done
> ServiceProcess() destructor
> ServiceProcess() destructor done
> _terminate() destructor
> _terminate() destructor done
>