I believe it is possible to catch the shutdown event, cancel it, and send a new one when the service is done cleaning up. Not pretty, but nothing ever is when there's a hardwired timeout involved.
On Monday 20 June 2011, Matt Jibson wrote: > I'm using the win32 extensions to install and run a service that can take > 10-15 seconds to gracefully shutdown. It successfully receives the shutdown > signal, but Windows Server 2008 kills the process before it can shutdown > normally. Works fine on Windows Server 2003. I'm aware this is possibly a > Windows issue. Anyone seen this or have ideas? _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32