When launched via the Service Control Manager, a service process is
required to "check-in" with it to establish service monitoring and
communication facilities. This function performs the check-in by spawning
a thread to handle the lower-level communication with the service control
manager.
Once started, the service process should continue to check-in with the
service control manager so that it can determine if it should terminate.
This is achieved by periodically calling
win32_get_last_control_message() and handling the return
code appropriately.
Returns TRUE on success, otherwise FALSE or a win32 error code.
Examples
Example #1 A win32_start_service_ctrl_dispatcher() example
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<?php if (!win32_start_service_ctrl_dispatcher('dummyphp')) { die("I'm probably not running under the service control manager"); }
while (WIN32_SERVICE_CONTROL_STOP != win32_get_last_control_message()) { # do some work here, trying not to take more than around 30 seconds # before coming back into the loop again } ?>