Yes, actually Windows services are "black belt programming". Here are some
pointers to get you started in the right direction.
http://www.microsoft.com/msj/1097/WINNT.aspx
http://www.muukka.net/programming/service.html
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1899.asp
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jostein Chr. Andersen" <jostein@josander.net>
To: <users@subversion.tigris.org>; <dev@subversion.tigris.org>
Cc: "Ben Collins-Sussman" <sussman@collab.net>; "Toby Johnson"
<toby@etjohnson.us>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: SVN as windows service?
> On Monday 24 May 2004 22.43, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 15:40, Toby Johnson wrote:
> > > I don't blame Subversion's authors at all for not including this
> > > support for Windows. Starting a daemon on Unix is as easy as a
> > > fork(). Windows requires you to jump through crazy hoops to get this
> > > functionality.
> >
> > Actually, I believe that Jostein Anderson is working on writing a real
> > 'service' for svnserve. He intends to include it in the win32
> > install-wizard someday.
>
> Oh, I have missed this posting, but I can answer/comment it anyway.
>
> I don't know how to turn svnserve into a real service under Windows and I
> don't think that I have time to learn how to do it within a very near
> future (well I might try in the beginning of the next week).
>
> How does Apache do it? Is this an Apache or APR issue? I can't imagine
> that's black belt programming when making svnserve to run as a real
> service under Windows.
>
> It would be nice if someone can code it or give me a starting point of
> turning svnserve for Windows into a real service.
>
> Jostein
>
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