Re: My way to check if a progam is already running

On a sunny day (Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:43:16 -0700) it happened David Schwartz
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However, odds are there's a much simpler way to do it. What goes wrong
if two instances run?

DS

My way is the simpler way it seems, seems to work 100% here so far.
What goes wrong is that if the program writes to files and has cached info.
If a second instance is started it will at some point write other data.
Well this is why I added the feature.
(See my first posting in this thread).

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