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Closing programs
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Long running headless processes on windows generally still have an event loop and a window handle via which they process those messages.
...right...tell that to cmd.exe or the OpenVPN daemon, or the soft ether VPN daemon, or OpenConsole.exe, or Idk, I only tested 4 that immediately came to mind but my point stands. There are a lot of programs that do not have a window handle and do not bother with window messages.
Service (daemon) lifecycles are managed via the system services api.
Yep, I'm aware of that too, doesn't change my initial point