>This should be a Unix question, I don't know how to do this, but maybe >you can use Mutex to do this. >>man mutex >will give you detail information. % man mutex No manual entry for mutex if you want the man page for pthread_mutexes, try pthread_mutex_init. but that won't help since some implementations of pthreads don't support cross-process mutexes. if you want something "better" than a lock file, use a semaphore, which is a standardized (though very cryptically documented) IPC system for unix-like OS's. see man semop. --p _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
