Handling Sleep/Wake events (on Windows)

[swiftdv8]

Not sure if this is a new feature request or something which I have missed in the lib. I am particularly focusing on Windows at the moment though i guess this would be a useful feature across all platforms.

The problem I'm seeing is that my service doesn't properly recover after sleep or hibernation. Googling the problem uncovered this: stack overflow - service hibernation

So it looks like there are events that a service can listen for to provide specific responses to sleep/wake events but I'm curious as to whether these events are exposed in this package and if not are there any plans to add them.

[kardianos]

I'm interested in hearing more.

What service behavior are you seeing after you sleep or hibernate? Are the services stopped after sleep/wake? Is the service "running" but the process is not really running?
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[swiftdv8]

Sorry, it seems my issue wasn't what I thought, My service was logging every minute or so (temporary) I was testing my service and seeing that after sleep/hibernate the logging stopped. I assumed i had to provide specific event handlers to listen and start my service logic loop again on wake.

As I say not as I thought - turns out that hibernate/sleep was un-mounting my external drive with my binary on so the service could not be reached - looking into that now

Happy to close this issue, thanks for the great package

[Muddz]

@kardianos @swiftdv8 I'm having the same problem.

I made a loop which logs to a../user/desktop.text file every 30 seconds to see if the Golang program running as a windows service, would still be active in hibernation/sleep mode or when the laptop screen is shut down. The conclusion is it won't.

One would think that a Windows service running in the background would still be active and not stopped. I think there should be some implementation to fix this.