[PATCH 0/1] MR10827: wineboot: Run services.exe from c:\windows\system32 directory.

[Dmitry Timoshkov (＠dmitry)]

A .Net based service detects that it's running as a service by checking if its
current directory is system32, otherwise the service runs in some debugging
console based mode. Service processes created by services.exe inherit its
current directory, so it's enough to make sure that services.exe runs from
c:\windows\system32.

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https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10827

[PATCH 1/1] wineboot: Run services.exe from c:\windows\system32 directory.

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

From: Dmitry Timoshkov <[e-mail]>

A .Net based service detects that it's running as a service by checking if its
current directory is system32, otherwise the service runs in some debugging
console based mode. Service processes created by services.exe inherit its
current directory, so it's enough to make sure that services.exe runs from
c:\windows\system32.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Timoshkov <[e-mail]>
---
 programs/wineboot/wineboot.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/programs/wineboot/wineboot.c b/programs/wineboot/wineboot.c
index 7c814d19826..6ffcbe1266c 100644
--- a/programs/wineboot/wineboot.c
+++ b/programs/wineboot/wineboot.c
@@ -1431,7 +1431,7 @@ static BOOL start_services_process(void)
     HANDLE wait_handles[2];
 
     if (!CreateProcessW(L"C:\\windows\\system32\\services.exe", NULL,
-                        NULL, NULL, TRUE, DETACHED_PROCESS, NULL, NULL, &si, &pi))
+                        NULL, NULL, TRUE, DETACHED_PROCESS, NULL, L"C:\\windows\\system32", &si, &pi))
     {
         WINE_ERR("Couldn't start services.exe: error %lu\n", GetLastError());
         return FALSE;
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GitLab

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10827