NSSM 2.4.

diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index 59b7142..022e5ed 100644 (file)
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 NSSM: The Non-Sucking Service Manager\r
-Version 2.3, 2010-04-21\r
+Version 2.4, 2010-09-23\r
 \r
 NSSM is a service helper program similar to srvany and cygrunsrv.  It can \r
 start any application as an NT service and will restart the service if it \r
@@ -88,10 +88,16 @@ but will continue running itself.  This emulates the (usually undesirable)
 behaviour of srvany.  The Windows Services console would show the service\r
 as still running even though the application has exited.\r
 \r
-If the value data is "Exit" NSSM will exit.  The Windows Services console\r
-would show the service as stopped.  If you wish to provide finer-grained\r
-control over service recovery you should use this code and edit the failure\r
-action manually.\r
+If the value data is "Exit" NSSM will exit gracefully.  The Windows Services\r
+console would show the service as stopped.  If you wish to provide\r
+finer-grained control over service recovery you should use this code and\r
+edit the failure action manually.  Please note that Windows versions prior\r
+to Vista will not consider such an exit to be a failure.  On older versions\r
+of Windows you should use "Suicide" instead.\r
+\r
+If the value data is "Suicide" NSSM will simulate a crash and exit without\r
+informing the service manager.  This option should only be used for\r
+pre-Vista systems where you wish to apply a service recovery action.\r
 \r
 \r
 Removing services using the GUI\r
@@ -144,6 +150,7 @@ Studio 2008.
 \r
 Credits\r
 -------\r
+Thanks to Bernard Loh for finding a bug with service recovery.\r
 Thanks to Benjamin Mayrargue (www.softlion.com) for adding 64-bit support.\r
 Thanks to Joel Reingold for spotting a command line truncation bug.\r
 \r

diff --git a/nssm.h b/nssm.h
index 7ec40f0..bbd0819 100644 (file)
--- a/nssm.h
+++ b/nssm.h
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
 int str_equiv(const char *, const char *);\r
 \r
 #define NSSM "nssm"\r
-#define NSSM_VERSION "2.3"\r
-#define NSSM_DATE "2010-04-21"\r
+#define NSSM_VERSION "2.4"\r
+#define NSSM_DATE "2010-09-23"\r
 #define NSSM_RUN "run"\r
 \r
 /*\r