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+Most examples in the web are not correct! Writing a service is a lot
+about understanding the state machines involved (between SCM, service
+handler in the service and the operating system).
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+Most frameworks try to abstract too much and set values to defaults
+they don't understand (for instance startup groups and order, service
+dependencies).
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+We should try to get to a set of service functions as for the daemon.
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