Services API

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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