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:
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
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| 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
|
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| bsd:u, bsd:s
|
Sockets services
|
|
| caps:a, caps:c, caps:ss
|
Capture services
|
a: Album, ss: Screenshot
|
| fatal:u
|
Fatal Error services
|
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| 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
|
|
| mm:u
|
NvMM 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
|
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
|
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| pl:u
|
Shared Font services
|
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| pm:bm, pm:shell
|
Process Manager services
|
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| prepo:u, prepo:s, prepo:m, prepo:a
|
Prepo(?) services
|
|
| set, set:sys
|
Settings services
|
sys: System settings
|
| sfdnsres
|
DNS resolver services
|
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| ssl
|
SSL services
|
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| time:u, time:a, time:s
|
Time services
|
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| vi:m, vi:s, vi:u
|
VI (Camera?) services
|
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