Re: msi: Implement the InstallServices action

[James Hawkins]

On 7/10/06, Robert Shearman  wrote:
> James Hawkins wrote:
> > +static UINT ITERATE_InstallService(MSIRECORD *rec, LPVOID param)
> > +{
> > ...
> > - service = CreateServiceW(hscm, name, disp, SERVICE_START |
> >
> > GENERIC_ALL,
> > -
> >                         serv_type, start_type, err_control,
> >
> > file->TargetPath,
> > -
> >                         load_order, NULL, depends, serv_name, pass);
> > - if (!service)
> > -
> >    ERR("Failed to create service %s: %ld\n", debugstr_w(disp),
> >
> > GetLastError());
> > -
> > - if (!StartServiceW(service, 0, NULL))
> > -
> >    ERR("Failed to start service %s: %ld\n", debugstr_w(disp),
> >
> > GetLastError());
>
> Is this function really supposed to start the service as well? Shouldn't
> this be done by the StartServices action instead
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/s...

When I first wrote InstallServices, I left out the StartService call,
because that makes sense, but the installers were still failing to
connect to the service, leaving the long delay.  I checked and there's
nothing in the StartServices table before or during runtime.  Adding
the call to StartService makes it work.  Is there some functionality
missing in advapi32 where a service starts up on demand if a process
tries to connect to it?  Reading through the relay and advapi logs, I
couldn't find a call to StartService, so I get the feeling the
installer expects the service to already be running, but I could be
wrong.