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Just like the 3DS/N3DS, the Switch exposes an API which communicates with certain services. 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.
List of services (non-exhaustive):
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Service names
! scope="col" width="200" | Description
! scope="col" width="200" | Notes
|-
| nvmemp
| NVIDIA Memory Profiling service
|
|-
| nvdrv:a
| NVIDIA Graphics Driver service
|
|-
| acc:u1
| Account System service
| u1: for user 1?
|-
| appletAE
| Applet Accessor service
|
|-
| audren:u
| Audio Renderer service
|
|-
| audout:u
| Audio Out service
|
|-
| caps:a, caps:ss
| Capture service
| a: Album, ss: Screenshot
|-
| nim:shp
| NIM service
| shp: eShop
|-
| fatal:u
| Fatal service
|
|-
| fsp-srv
| File System Proxy service
|
|-
| hid, hid:dbg, hid:sys
| HID service
|
|-
| ldn:m
| Local Network Monitor service
|
|-
| lm
| Log service
|
|-
| nifm:u, nifm:a, nifm:s
| Network Interface service
| u: User?, a: Application?, s: Static?
|-
| ns:am
| NS service
| am: Application Manager
|-
| nsd:u, nsd:a
| NSD service
|
|-
| pl:u
| Shared Font Manager service
|
|-
| prepo:u, prepo:s, prepo:m, prepo:a
| Prepo(?) service
|
|-
| set, set:sys
| Settings service
| sys: System settings
|-
| bsd:u, bsd:s
| Sockets service
|
|-
| sfdnsres
| DNS resolver service
|
|-
| ssl
| SSL service
|
|-
| time:u, time:a, time:s
| Time service
|
|-
| vi:m, vi:s, vi:u
| VI (Camera?) service
|
|-
| erpt:c
| ERPT(?) service
|
|-
| ldr:ro
| RO service
|
|-
| mm:u
| NvMM service
|
|}
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.
List of services (non-exhaustive):
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Service names
! scope="col" width="200" | Description
! scope="col" width="200" | Notes
|-
| nvmemp
| NVIDIA Memory Profiling service
|
|-
| nvdrv:a
| NVIDIA Graphics Driver service
|
|-
| acc:u1
| Account System service
| u1: for user 1?
|-
| appletAE
| Applet Accessor service
|
|-
| audren:u
| Audio Renderer service
|
|-
| audout:u
| Audio Out service
|
|-
| caps:a, caps:ss
| Capture service
| a: Album, ss: Screenshot
|-
| nim:shp
| NIM service
| shp: eShop
|-
| fatal:u
| Fatal service
|
|-
| fsp-srv
| File System Proxy service
|
|-
| hid, hid:dbg, hid:sys
| HID service
|
|-
| ldn:m
| Local Network Monitor service
|
|-
| lm
| Log service
|
|-
| nifm:u, nifm:a, nifm:s
| Network Interface service
| u: User?, a: Application?, s: Static?
|-
| ns:am
| NS service
| am: Application Manager
|-
| nsd:u, nsd:a
| NSD service
|
|-
| pl:u
| Shared Font Manager service
|
|-
| prepo:u, prepo:s, prepo:m, prepo:a
| Prepo(?) service
|
|-
| set, set:sys
| Settings service
| sys: System settings
|-
| bsd:u, bsd:s
| Sockets service
|
|-
| sfdnsres
| DNS resolver service
|
|-
| ssl
| SSL service
|
|-
| time:u, time:a, time:s
| Time service
|
|-
| vi:m, vi:s, vi:u
| VI (Camera?) service
|
|-
| erpt:c
| ERPT(?) service
|
|-
| ldr:ro
| RO service
|
|-
| mm:u
| NvMM service
|
|}