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Question on process

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:33 pm
by Armoured
Hi :)
I' need to have running only one istance of a program in my PC.
On windows there are "Mutex" and on Linux?


Thanks

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:28 pm
by Trond
You put a lock file in /tmp. Or check the output of ps. Or maybe something else.