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

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From: Raymond Chen
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 00:00

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On Wed, 05 Feb 1997 13:38:05 GMT,
h.eichmann@mbox.iqo.uni-hannover.de (Heiner Eichmann) wrote:
>What happens if the program crashes before it can release the event?

Windows automatically closes unclosed HANDLE objects when the
application exits (either normally or abnormally).

>It is improbably also possible that a different program uses the same 
>name for an event.

If you use a GUID, then you can be pretty sure that no other
program is using the same name.

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