About SERVICE_TABLE_ENTRY

The SERVICE_TABLE_ENTRY structure is used by the StartServiceCtrlDispatcher function to specify the ServiceMain function for a service that can run in the calling process.

 

typedef struct _SERVICE_TABLE_ENTRY

{ 

LPTSTR lpServiceName; 

LPSERVICE_MAIN_FUNCTION lpServiceProc;

}

SERVICE_TABLE_ENTRY, *LPSERVICE_TABLE_ENTRY;

Members

lpServiceName

Pointer to a null-terminated string that specifies the name of a service to be run in this service process.

If the service is installed with the SERVICE_WIN32_OWN_PROCESS service type, this member is ignored, but cannot be NULL. This member can be an empty string ("").

If the service is installed with the

SERVICE_WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS service type, this member specifies the name of the service that uses the ServiceMain function pointed to by the lpServiceProc member.

 

lpServiceProc

Pointer to a ServiceMain function.

Requirements

Client Requires Windows XP, Windows 2000 Professional, or Windows NT Workstation.

Server Requires Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server, or Windows NT Server.

Header Declared in Winsvc.h; include Windows.h.

Unicode Implemented as SERVICE_TABLE_ENTRYW (Unicode) and SERVICE_TABLE_ENTRYA (ANSI).