On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Brad Campbell wrote:
> G'day all, > > I've been having a play with simpleipc.pp for trying to do cross-platform > single instance detection. > > Ordinarily it behaves perfectly, but I just noticed on Linux that it all comes > crashing down if the server application crashes without removing the pipe. > > I then have to manually remove the pipe to be able to start the server again. > > Has anyone come up against this, or similar previously? > I'm somewhat stumped as to how to go about solving this as I can't find a > reliable way of detecting a listener on the end of the pipe. You could write the server process id to a file, and detect whether the process is still alive. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
