If anything, today's experience is re-enforcing my drive to move more of this stuff over to the .NET framework.
@larand I'll be bitching about Windows and modifying a ancient utility to act as a service.
@larand "I'll stop at the courthouse. What's the harm in that?"
Famous last words.
// @thrrgilag
Okay. The Windows service manager has been brought to heel. Now to see what OpenSSL's malfunction is.
It goes to show that you can never abandon a product. People will still request you drop everything and go back to it. "Just for them".
I'm too nice a guy sometimes.
@thrrgilag I got it out of the way early. Was hoping to avoid a line full of people in baseball caps saying things that make me bite my tongue. Didn't work.
Error 0x80004005
Microsoft-ese for "IM GONNA BE VERY VAGUE ABOUT THE PROBLEM HERE"
@matigo No. This is in the socket code somewhere. I have DebugView running right now in the hopes that I get a good clue as to where.
Hmm. Works great under Windows 7. Bombs randomly under Windows 10. Going to be a long day.
@kdfrawg Then I have a lot of muting to do, I guess. I've run out of patience for the fetish some people have made of the process.
// @larand