Bug #30573 for Win32-Process: Win32::Process::Create() - No file handle inheritance in a service

The appended patch to Process/Process.hpp fixes an issue with windows services whereby the file handles weren't being inherited into the new process. The same program run as a console application would work as expected. The patch would appear to be a noop as this is standard behaviour but is clearly doing something extra when used as part of a service. I don't have a small test-suite to demonstrate it. The application is using POE and PerlSvc. ActivePerl 5.8.8 Build 822 ActiveState Perl Dev Kit 7.0.0 Build 277058 to build the service. 38d37 < st.dwFlags = 0; 42a42,49 Show quoted text

When running as a service (using perlsvc), if the service opens STDIN, STDOUT or STDERR to some file, any process ran using Win32::Process will not inherit the file handles. This bug previously reported it, and offered a patch: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=30573 Here's how to reproduce it. Create a directory, download this snippet into the file testservice.pl http://pastebin.com/m78325af Then this snippet into job.pl http://pastebin.com/m3dc56344 Compile testservice.pl as a service in a console window: perlapp --force job.pl perlsvc --force testservice.pl Now, if you run testservice.exe directly: testservice.exe and you look into the newly created job.log file, you should see this: Wed Mar 25 12:58:37 2009: [from service] test stdout. Fileno:1 Wed Mar 25 12:58:37 2009: [from service] test stderr. Fileno:2 Wed Mar 25 12:58:37 2009: Starting Win32::Process Next, you should see two lines from the process. job.exe Win32::Process: Testing stderr. job.exe Win32::Process: Testing stdout. Over and over again. But if you start it as a service: testservice.exe --install auto you will see this in job.log, missing the output from the job.exe. Wed Mar 25 12:58:37 2009: [from service] test stdout. Fileno:1 Wed Mar 25 12:58:37 2009: [from service] test stderr. Fileno:2 Wed Mar 25 12:58:37 2009: Starting Win32::Process Next, you should see two lines from the process. In testservice.log, I open STDOUT and STDERR towards job.log, right before starting job.exe, So job.exe's output should be in job.log, but that doesn't work with a service, for some reason.