how does chris mentioning removing the registry lead to IPC? there's no point in using process lists or anything else, for that matter, if the OP can just do it right and remove the key from the registery
Thanks, Tyler Littlefield Web: tysdomain.com email: [email protected] My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features. ----- Original Message ----- From: John Gaughan To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 4:52 PM Subject: Re: [c-prog] How to load only one instance in Windows startup? Christopher Coale wrote: > Or he could just simply not add his program to the registry 2 times > (like Tyler said), which is what the problem is in the first place. ;) > This is an interesting and useful digression, however. IPC in general, whether through mutexes, semaphores, lock files, sockets, or some other mechanism is genuinely useful and important to learn for someone not familiar with it. -- John Gaughan [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
