On Thursday 26 September 2002 2:53 am, Allan Rae wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Angus Leeming wrote: > > Of course if we can test whether the pipe is open before > > attempting to unlink it, then we could definitely delete > > pipes that are closed... > > > > Angus (ignorance showing once again). > > Can't we just connect to the pipe (like a client) say "Hello" > and if there's no response we know nobody else is using it? > > Can't we then just reuse the pipes? Or do we really have to > delete them and recreate them? > > Allan. (ARRae) showing my ignorance now?
;-) The problem is that whilst LyX responds to a "Hello" from a client, sending out a "Hello" in reply, clients are not required to respond in similar fashion. It would of course be straightforward to enforce this. Something like Angus
