On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Tamas Marki <[email protected]> wrote:

> It is a lot simpler, and probably won't trigger heuristics in
> antivirus programs (why would your program want to look at the process
> list)?
> I agree that in Unix-like operating systems it would be the way to go,
> but in Windows it's easier, cleaner, simpler.

mutexes are used on Unix-ish systems, too, although it's easy enough
to iterate across the process list even with a shell script.

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