Failed to restart Jenkins on Windows using jenkins.war

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Finally found a solution, or rather a workaround.

I’m starting my Jenkins instance using a batch file, run by Task Scheduler.
Previously I was just running the java command, as the last line in the batch file, using the
-Dhudson.lifecycle=hudson.lifecycle.WindowsServiceLifecycle property and that’s what was causing the error on restart.
After some investigation into WindowsServiceLifecycle, inspired by Alex Earl, I found out that I can also use hudson.lifecycle.ExitLifecycle. Now this property value is closing the Jenkins controller instead of restarting it, but it gives a ErrorLevel code 5. Because of this I was able to modify my batch script into the following:

:START_JENKINS
java -Dhudson.lifecycle=hudson.lifecycle.ExitLifecycle -jar C:\jenkins\jenkins.war --httpPort=9090

if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 5 (
	GOTO :START_JENKINS
) else ( GOTO :eof )