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

Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:05:34 +0200 it happened Michal Nazarewicz
<mina86@xxxxxxx> wrote in <871wg3j89d.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

With the above code I think it is not possible to start two instances in
such a way that both will continue running. The worst case is that they
both will abort. (It's still a bug.)

I still don't see why you don't want to lock a file at the start and
unlock it when program terminates. It's way simpler operation:

Yes, but then you have 2 GUI up for example,

??? How locking a file lock differs from getting number of applications
with given name? Simply replace your checking routine with what I wrote
and you have the same functionality but more portable and without any
bugs.

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