> > numerous places and could reliably be used to check for running
> > instances. much like ps, only without invoking an external program.
>
> Well, but how do you avoid race conditions? That is, by the time you're
> finished looping through all the /proc/(pid)'s, what's to stop something else
> from having started a new process?
Or another program with the same name
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