Hi, I'd like to make sure, that a certain python program will only be run once per host. (linux/windows)
so if the program is started a second time it should just terminate and let the other one run. This does not have to be the fastest solution, but it should be reliable. I have a few ideas, but wonder, which one is the most common My ideas so far: pid file and file locking -------------------------- create a file like program.pid with the pid of the running program an use file locking to avoid race connditions. However I currently don't know how to do file locking under windows and I don't know how to do file lockng with python and linux. I'll start googling. sqlite and locking -------------------- quite some time ago I used a mysql table and locking as an inter-host mutex. Perhaps sqlite would be good enough for an inter process mutex for processes on the same host, but I don't know it well enough. interprocess mutex -------------------- well I even don't know whether something like this exists on linux / windows Thanks in advanced for any tips N -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
