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Article #2934Re: How to avoid multiple instances of a program in NT and 95?
From: Doug Stevens
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 00:00
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> raymondc@microsoft.com.--- (Raymond Chen) wrote: > >Create a named event and check if you get ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS > >from GetLastError. Heiner Eichmann wrote: > What happens if the program crashes before it can release the event? > It is improbably also possible that a different program uses the same > name for an event. If the program crashes, any handles that it holds become abandoned. If you wait on them, the OS returns a WAIT_ABANDONED value, and if you try to create them, it will let you.
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