> that part is easy. I would, however, prefer to look into /proc or ps
> instead, just to make sure that a) I catch cases where the binary is
> started by other means, too and b) to avoid all sorts of trouble with
> lockfiles not being removed correctly (kill -9).
How do you expect looking in /proc to help you ? as to b) its not a problem
because the kill will close the file and drop the lock.
> the more interesting part is dealing with the "it already runs" case.
> cycling it to the foreground would probably be the best answer. that is
> windowmanager territory, something I haven't coded in so far.
Alan
Received on Mon Dec 31 2001 - 04:37:45 EST
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