James Mansion wrote:
Since most unix boxes and applications are very happy to have multiple instances
of the same application in use at the same time, can you help clarify what this
sort of API accomplishes or is used for?
I think this is a rather common requirement for desktop apps. In UNIX,
it would commonly be used on a per-login basis (sort of thing you'd get
a DBUS session bus instance for) but remember that its also effectively
used by init, and for server stuff its handy if you have a daemon that
is wanting to receive all UDP traffic broadcast to a particular address.
*Bingo*. We don't simply tie this out to 'this process (binary) is running',
but it probably needs a modifier, e.g. 'this process in this login is running',
or 'this process using resource X is running'.
So let's talk about some API for apr_app_proc_running( [???] ) that we could
consider for inclusion 1.3.0? I'm fairly certain this is something we can
do portably. Offers of help on other OS's if I tackle WinNT?
Bill
