Re: Mozilla 1.0.1 Win32 works almost flawlessly

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On November 7, 2002 11:40 am, Andreas Mohr wrote:

[Cc:ed to the list maybe people want to comment of it]
> Now how to solve the winelauncher wineboot launch problem ?
> This needs to be done on first launch only, and it needs to avoid race
> conditions.
> Maybe we could add the lockfile command (courtesy procmail) to Wine
> and implement it with that ?

I think we need a well defined notion of 'boot'

What about this: on server startup, we do this:

if (wine_need_reboot())
    spawn("wineboot");

The thing is:
  1. dead simple
  2. atomic, avoids races
  3. fast

Surely I may be missing something, but what's wrong with the above?
(mind you, I know nothing about the server, but still... :))

Mozilla 1.0.1 Win32 works almost flawlessly

[Dominik Strasser]

Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> On November 7, 2002 11:40 am, Andreas Mohr wrote:
>
> [Cc:ed to the list maybe people want to comment of it]
> > Now how to solve the winelauncher wineboot launch problem ?
> > This needs to be done on first launch only, and it needs to avoid race
> > conditions.
> > Maybe we could add the lockfile command (courtesy procmail) to Wine
> > and implement it with that ?
>
> I think we need a well defined notion of 'boot'
>
> What about this: on server startup, we do this:
>
> if (wine_need_reboot())
>    spawn("wineboot");
>
> The thing is:
> - dead simple
> - atomic, avoids races
> - fast
>
> Surely I may be missing something, but what's wrong with the above?
> (mind you, I know nothing about the server, but still... :))

Ever since this discussion has started, I am thinking of doing the above 
on server _shutdown_. But I always had (and have) the feeling that I am 
missing something.

Regards

Dominik

Mozilla 1.0.1 Win32 works almost flawlessly

[Shachar Shemesh]

That may be ok for renaming wininint.ini, but there is a whole bunch of 
other stuff that needs to be done. Off the top of my head, I can think 
of the following:
RunServicesOnce
RunServices
RunOnce
Run
Run\Setup
windows.ini run= sections

On NT, remove the RunServicesOne and RunServices and wininit.ini, but 
instead add
Services
Delayed rename (easier for us to implement, actually)
Default registry
All users start menu

I must admit that I am not sure where Andreas' current code stands. I 
will note that, in many ways, the NT infrastructure is easier for us to 
implement than the 9x infrastructure.

Shachar

Dominik Strasser wrote:
> Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> > On November 7, 2002 11:40 am, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> >
> > [Cc:ed to the list maybe people want to comment of it]
> > > Now how to solve the winelauncher wineboot launch problem ?
> > > This needs to be done on first launch only, and it needs to avoid race
> > > conditions.
> > > Maybe we could add the lockfile command (courtesy procmail) to Wine
> > > and implement it with that ?
> >
> > I think we need a well defined notion of 'boot'
> >
> > What about this: on server startup, we do this:
> >
> > if (wine_need_reboot())
> >     spawn("wineboot");
> >
> > The thing is:
> > - dead simple
> > - atomic, avoids races
> > - fast
> >
> > Surely I may be missing something, but what's wrong with the above?
> > (mind you, I know nothing about the server, but still... :))
>
> Ever since this discussion has started, I am thinking of doing the 
> above on server _shutdown_. But I always had (and have) the feeling 
> that I am missing something.
>
> Regards
>
> Dominik