WL#2393: Refactor Windows service installation and startup
Affects: 7.1
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Status: Un-Assigned
The service installation and startup on Windows is implemented by a custom main() function in sql/mysqld.cc that does magical things based on the number of arguments given to the mysqld.exe program. This results in some strange behavior when starting up mysqld.exe with just a few arguments, an arbitrary limitation that the --install and --remove arguments appear first, and an arbitrary limitation of only one command-line argument being specified for the installed service. This is unnecessary, and it should be possible to simply integrate the service startup and installation into the normal main() routine by adding handling for the "--install" and "--remove" switches, and an understanding of the single service- name argument that is passed during service startup.
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