Re: Check for instances running

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Joao Rainha wrote:

I'm doing a kind of a lock file, where i keep the process pid, and at the beginning of the program, i check i the file exist and if the pid is a valid process.


Is this the best way to do it?
Are there any better method, like specific gtk or glib functions?


You also need to keep the client/server nature of X in mind. You may have several instances running on the same display but on different hosts, and/or several instances running on the same host but on different displays.


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Christer Palm

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