[vwnc] Cleanly stopping Windows service

I have an app that I run as a Windows service using Srvany.exe as described in the application developers guide. On Linux it runs as a daemon and is controlled by the appropriate init.d scripts. On linux, I can register with the object engine to receive the sigterm signals and shutdown the app cleanly when daemon is stopped with the following code:

OSHandle currentOS == #unix

ifTrue:

[sem := Semaphore new.

ObjectMemory registerObject: sem withEngineFor: 'SIGTERM'.

[sem wait.

ObjectMemory quit] forkAt: Processor userInterruptPriority].

Doing this allows the Subsystem framework to work correctly and the tearDown actions are all performed.

Does anyone know how I can do a similar thing when running the app as a Windows service. The behavior currently is that when the service is stopped, the app is just killed, and no code can be run prior to shutting down.

Thanks,

Mike

Mike Hales
Engineering Manager
KnowledgeScape
www.kscape.com