--- In [email protected], "John Matthews" <jm5...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Brett McCoy <idragosani@> wrote: > > > > mutexes are used on Unix-ish systems, too, although it's easy enough > > to iterate across the process list even with a shell script. > > Never tried it, but is there a danger with the process list approach (Windows > or Unix) that if 2 processes are started at roughly the same time, you still > end up with 2 running? >
...or perhaps (more likely?) none running at all - each detects the other?
