Re: Re: [iPAQ] run-once ?

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 12:48:22PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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.

hm, right. as to /proc - /proc/(pid) contains the program name in
numerous places and could reliably be used to check for running
instances. much like ps, only without invoking an external program.

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