[Lazarus] Stopping a service from within a service

[wkitty42 at windstream.net]

On 02/04/2016 11:41 AM, Richard Mace wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What's the best way of shutting down a service that is a service, having the
> same effect as the user clicking stop.
>
> Basically, I want my service to monitor a condition, which if met, it will stop
> itself.
>
> Windows Lazarus 1.4.4

i don't know of a ""best"" way but there are several... the easiest might be to 
monitor a disk-based semaphore file... if it exists, the service closes as you 
desire...

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