daemon app in win32

[Steve Purcell]

Michael Bauer wrote:
> i am writing a daemon application that runs both under windows and unix.  
> Since i am not very experienced in win32 - programming, i really would 
> appreciate some hints how to register my app in win32 that i can do some 
> cleanup-functions when windows is shut down.
> 
> At the moment it is just a standard console application that simply gets 
> killed when windows shuts down. The app does not have/need a GUI, it should 
> just run in the background.


If you're using NT, take a look at the win32service API. I think it provides
hooks like SvcStop that Windows will call for you (if you ask it nicely).

-Steve

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