Terminating a service when a worker thread terminates

One common way to do this is to create another thread that acts as a "sentinal"over the first. It sole job is to monitor the health of the worker thread and inform the service of a problem

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Hello:

I created a basic windows service that polls a db and sends emails to
our subscribers. In the onstart method I create a new thread and send
it on its way to do work. It should never end unless told to do so by
the onexit event I implemented in the worker object. However there
are the rare circumstance that the thread hits a catastrophic error
and exits the main process loop. So basically the service is now
useless. Is there a way that I can periodically check the state of
the thread in the service and take down the service normally in the
service implmentation.

Please let me know what you think,

Tim

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You should be able to handle any error by catching them inside your loop and
ignore/report them, and continue.

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Hello:

I created a basic windows service that polls a db and sends emails to
our subscribers. In the onstart method I create a new thread and send
it on its way to do work. It should never end unless told to do so by
the onexit event I implemented in the worker object. However there
are the rare circumstance that the thread hits a catastrophic error
and exits the main process loop. So basically the service is now
useless. Is there a way that I can periodically check the state of
the thread in the service and take down the service normally in the
service implmentation.

Please let me know what you think,

Tim