win32utils devel - Feb 2006 - Win32 service and blocking code in service_main

Hello mailing list!

Sorry for the personal/private mail I sent to Daniel and Park, but
just a few minutes ago I subscribed to this list.

I have found the solution, for webrick, mongrel and other webserver
(well I guess).

If the code in service_main is blocked (like the webrick dispatcher),
the service_main function never exit/left, so service.mainloop never
terminates and service control timeout.

What I have done is put the running dispatcher in a Thread that is
fired by service_main, and then I loop (like you have said Park) using
small sleep values until state != RUNNING, which is signaled during a
stop command.

Now mongrel and webrick start and stop without problems, from
controller script or using the Services console (or command line "net
start/stop").

Because mongrel dispatch working threads, there is no need to create
another one that join with them, just I have added comments to the
code that could be useful with webrick too.

Regards and thank you for your time,

Luis
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