Userland services

[art yerkes]

What are our current options for creating userland services in reactos?
We don't seem to have an svchost, so should I make my service a 
standalone exe for now?

Is anybody working on service support?
-- 
Here's a simple experiment. Stand on a train track between two locomotives
which are pushing on you with equal force in opposite directions. You will
exhibit no net motion. None the less, you may soon begin to notice that
something important is happening.
-- Robert Stirniman

[Rick Langschultz]

I have been wondering about what reactos will do also about services,
processes, and servers being utilized when reactos becomes 100%
compatible with MS Windows NT versions. I was wondering if ReactOS would
consider taking a look at how BeOS protects these servers, services, and
processes. For those of you that don't know if a sound server crashes in
beos it is shutdown without crashing the system. This would greatly add
productivity, functionality, and security to the ReactOS.

I think that reactos could also use something like a "swap partition" or
method to write information to an encrypted volume to use for later it
reactos crashes. I know that something like a "rapid restore" feature
would greatly excite users so when ReactOS crashes it can be resumed
without problems or loss of work.

[sque squarious]

ssss.... Micro$oft is watching...
they 'll steal your ideas :o

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 07:30:14 -0600, Rick Langschultz
[e-mail] wrote:
> I have been wondering about what reactos will do also about services,
> processes, and servers being utilized when reactos becomes 100%
> compatible with MS Windows NT versions. I was wondering if ReactOS would
> consider taking a look at how BeOS protects these servers, services, and
> processes. For those of you that don't know if a sound server crashes in
> beos it is shutdown without crashing the system. This would greatly add
> productivity, functionality, and security to the ReactOS.
>
> I think that reactos could also use something like a "swap partition" or
> method to write information to an encrypted volume to use for later it
> reactos crashes. I know that something like a "rapid restore" feature
> would greatly excite users so when ReactOS crashes it can be resumed
> without problems or loss of work.
>
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[Eric Kohl]

art yerkes wrote:
> What are our current options for creating userland services in reactos?

Services.exe can start standalone services (.exe files) but controlling 
them is impossible because of missing RPC code in the service manager.
> We don't seem to have an svchost, so should I make my service a 
> standalone exe for now?

Yes! Eventlog and umpnpmgr are already working this way.
> Is anybody working on service support?

I'm working on WIDL in order to implement the service control code in 
services.exe and advapi32.dll.

Btw, right now I don't have much time for hacking except for the 
weekends because I am attending a 6-month programming course. I hope to 
add the next feature to WIDL by the weekend.

Regards,
Eric

[art yerkes]

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:54:42 +0100
Eric Kohl [e-mail] wrote:
> art yerkes wrote:
> > What are our current options for creating userland services in reactos?
>
> Services.exe can start standalone services (.exe files) but controlling 
> them is impossible because of missing RPC code in the service manager.

Ahh thanks, that's just what I was wondering.  I'll use services.exe.
-- 
Here's a simple experiment. Stand on a train track between two locomotives
which are pushing on you with equal force in opposite directions. You will
exhibit no net motion. None the less, you may soon begin to notice that
something important is happening.
-- Robert Stirniman