Re: NT Service, WinSock

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

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In article <8t9lbu$ml1$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:
> In article <8t8u9l$4ru$1@zingo.tninet.se>,
>   "Peter Hend�n" <phenden@tdab.com> wrote:
>> I am doing an overhaul of a Windows NT service. It is
>> currently done in C++. I now have a (very tight) time
>> window to convince the powers that be to let me rewrite
>> this in Ada (I did the original C++ implementation). What
>> I would like some help with is how to implement an NT
>> service (the service module handler stuff) - sample/boilerplate
> 
> Hmmm. There's a nice little discussion of that on the MDSN disk that
> should have come with your C++ compiler: "Design a Windows NT Serice..."
> in Periodicals 1997. It looks pretty simple. You just need to create a
> ServiceMain and Handler routine (with the proper parameter profiles of
> course) for each service in your program. If your executable is listed
> in the registry as containing a service, the OS calls your main
> procedure at startup to perform initialization. As part of that
> initialization your main procedure builds a LPSERVICE_TABLE_ENTRY array
> containing the name and ServiceMain address for each service in the
> executable. You then pass that to StartServiceCtrlDispatcher (You have
> to do this within 2 minutes, or the OS will kill your process).

Wasn't this the area with a problem letting the Ada RTL know about
threads created by the Microsoft OS code ?