Services API

Services are system processes running in the background which wait for incoming requests. When a process wants to communicate with a service, it first needs to get a handle to the named service, and then it can communicate with the service via inter-process communication (each service has a name up to 8 characters).

Handles for services are retrieved from the service manager port, "sm:". Services are an abstraction of ports, they operate the same way except regular ports can have their handles retrieved directly from a SVC.

sm:

Cmd	Name
0	#Initialize
1	#GetService
2	#RegisterService
3

Initialize

Word	Value
0	0x00000004
1	0x8000000A
2	0x00000001
0-1	Pid
0	"SCFI"
1	0x00000000
2	Always 0.

GetService

Word	Value
0	0x00000004
1	0x0000000A
0	"SCFI"
1	0x00000001
2	Service name, zero padded and casted to u64.

RegisterService

Word	Value
0	0x00000004
1	0x0000000C
0	"SCFI"
1	0x00000002
2	Service name, zero padded and casted to u64.
3	Max sessions? 32-bit integer.
4	Unknown bool

Service List

Service names	Description	Notes
acc:u1, acc:su	Account services	u1: for user 1?
appletAE	Applet Accessor services
aoc:u	AddOn Content services
audren:u	Audio Renderer services
audout:u	Audio Out services
bgtc:t, bgtc:sc	Task services
bsd:u, bsd:s	Sockets services
caps:a, caps:c, caps:ss	Capture services	a: Album, ss: Screenshot
fatal:u	Fatal Error services
friend:u, friend:v, friend:m, friend:s, friend:a	Friend services
fsp-srv	Filesystem services
hid, hid:dbg, hid:sys	HID services
ldn:m	Local Network Monitor services
ldr:ro, ldr:shel	Loader services
lm	Log services
lr	?
erpt:c	ERPT(?) services
mii:u, mii:e	Mii services
nifm:u, nifm:a, nifm:s	Network Interface services	u: User, a: Applet, s: System
nim:shp	NIM services	shp: eShop
ns:am, ns:su, ns:dev	NS Services	am: Application Manager, su: System Update
nsd:u, nsd:a	NSD services
nvdrv:a, nvmemp, mm:u	NV services
ovln:rcv, ovln:snd	Overlay Notification services
pctl, pctl:a, pctl:s, pctl:r	Parental Control services
pdm:ntfy, pdm:qry	Play Log services
pl:u	Shared Font services
pm:bm, pm:shell	Process Manager services
prepo:u, prepo:s, prepo:m, prepo:a	Prepo(?) services
set, set:sys	Settings services	sys: System settings
sfdnsres	DNS resolver services
ssl	SSL services
time:u, time:a, time:s	Time services
vi:m, vi:s, vi:u	VI (Camera?) services