testing if another instance of a script is already running
Larry Bates
larry.bates at vitalEsafe.com
Sat Sep 13 11:07:04 EDT 2008
Strato wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I want to write some kind of test to check at startup if another
> instance of my script is already running.
>
> I don't want to handle writing of a PID file because it is too
> Unix/Linux specific way to do this, and I need to keep the code to be
> cross-platform.
>
> I think the better way to achieve this is to use some process control,
> but I'm a neebie and I don't see how to do this in a safe and clean way.
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Best regards,
> Strato
Here is a recipe for Linux version of singleinstance class:
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/546512/
and I wrote and contributed the equivalent Windows version:
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/474070/
Hope this helps.
-Larry
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