SERVICE_STATUS structure (winsvc.h)

Contains status information for a service. The ControlService, EnumDependentServices, EnumServicesStatus, and QueryServiceStatus functions use this structure. A service uses this structure in the SetServiceStatus function to report its current status to the service control manager.

Syntax

typedef struct _SERVICE_STATUS {
  DWORD dwServiceType;
  DWORD dwCurrentState;
  DWORD dwControlsAccepted;
  DWORD dwWin32ExitCode;
  DWORD dwServiceSpecificExitCode;
  DWORD dwCheckPoint;
  DWORD dwWaitHint;
} SERVICE_STATUS, *LPSERVICE_STATUS;

Members

dwServiceType

The type of service. This member can be one of the following values.

If the service type is either SERVICE_WIN32_OWN_PROCESS or SERVICE_WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS, and the service is running in the context of the LocalSystem account, the following type may also be specified.

dwCurrentState

The current state of the service. This member can be one of the following values.

dwControlsAccepted

The control codes the service accepts and processes in its handler function (see Handler and HandlerEx). A user interface process can control a service by specifying a control command in the ControlService or ControlServiceEx function. By default, all services accept the SERVICE_CONTROL_INTERROGATE value.

To accept the SERVICE_CONTROL_DEVICEEVENT value, the service must register to receive device events by using the RegisterDeviceNotification function.

The following are the control codes.

This member can also contain the following extended control codes, which are supported only by HandlerEx. (Note that these control codes cannot be sent by ControlService or ControlServiceEx.)

dwWin32ExitCode

The error code the service uses to report an error that occurs when it is starting or stopping. To return an error code specific to the service, the service must set this value to ERROR_SERVICE_SPECIFIC_ERROR to indicate that the dwServiceSpecificExitCode member contains the error code. The service should set this value to NO_ERROR when it is running and on normal termination.

dwServiceSpecificExitCode

A service-specific error code that the service returns when an error occurs while the service is starting or stopping. This value is ignored unless the dwWin32ExitCode member is set to ERROR_SERVICE_SPECIFIC_ERROR.

dwCheckPoint

The check-point value the service increments periodically to report its progress during a lengthy start, stop, pause, or continue operation. For example, the service should increment this value as it completes each step of its initialization when it is starting up. The user interface program that invoked the operation on the service uses this value to track the progress of the service during a lengthy operation. This value is not valid and should be zero when the service does not have a start, stop, pause, or continue operation pending.

dwWaitHint

The estimated time required for a pending start, stop, pause, or continue operation, in milliseconds. Before the specified amount of time has elapsed, the service should make its next call to the SetServiceStatus function with either an incremented dwCheckPoint value or a change in dwCurrentState. If the amount of time specified by dwWaitHint passes, and dwCheckPoint has not been incremented or dwCurrentState has not changed, the service control manager or service control program can assume that an error has occurred and the service should be stopped. However, if the service shares a process with other services, the service control manager cannot terminate the service application because it would have to terminate the other services sharing the process as well.

Requirements

See also

ControlService

ControlServiceEx

EnumDependentServices

EnumServicesStatus

QueryServiceStatus

SetServiceStatus