Re: How to avoid multiple instances of a program in NT and 95?

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From: Chris Becke
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 00:00

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Sean Kennedy <skennedy@ecs.fullerton.edu> wrote in article
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> On Mon, 03 Feb 97 10:24:56 GMT, Alois.Buecherl@terraSat.de (Alois
> Buecherl) wrote:
> 
> A terrible hack could be upon startup immediately create a file in the
> %TEMP% directory.  If the create function returns a 'File exists'
> return, otherwise, continue.  

Or worse, make a small initialized data section, mark it as "Shared", and
put a refrence counter in it =0;

First app increment to 1; and instance check counter and abort if >= 1

Chris.
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From: "Chris Becke" <chris@dbn.lia.net>
Subject: Re: How to avoid multiple instances of a program in NT and 95?
Date: 1997/02/05
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