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@ -10,6 +10,6 @@ This hidden command is a flavor of the `restart` operation,
where winsw creates another winsw process in a separate process group,
and restarts the service from there.
This additional indirection is necessary because Windows Service Control Manager (SCM) will kill child processes recursively when it stops a service.
SCM doesn't provide the restart operation as an atomic operation either, so winsw implements restart by a sequence of stop and start.
This additional indirection is necessary because WinSW will kill child processes recursively when it stops a service.
Windows Service Control Manager (SCM) doesn't provide the restart operation as an atomic operation either, so winsw implements restart by a sequence of stop and start.
The second winsw process in a separate process group ensures that winsw can survive this massacre to execute the start call.