[Mono-list] services and daemons

[Ivan Hawkes]

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Moore, Paul wrote:
| does mono allow nt services and unix daemons to be written? In a
portable fashion?
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| Paul Moore
| Computer Associates
| Principal Software Engineer - BrightStor
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This would be pretty interesting (to me at least) since I tend to write
a fair few NT services and the idea of getting them running on Linux
instead, unchanged, would be very tasty. I'm always looking for ways to
introduce clients to Linux :-)

It can't be too hard to abstract the interface, since an NT service at
it's basic level will simply implement the template code from the ATL
(if you're the sort who cares about their code) and hopefully they will
spin a seperate control/worker thread from there. This is the same model
I have followed when writing services using C# instead of C++ except C#
hides all that nasty template code and wraps it up in a very nice clean
interface.

Since the main controls to be implemented are:

* start
* stop
* pause (who even uses this)

with perhaps some custom controls for the fancy services these maps
fairly well onto stuff that Linux already supports.

Hmmm, might have to look into this a little later...
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