GHUM wrote:
Tim,
... why use a Semaphore rather than a Mutex?
as much as I understood the documentation at MSDN
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686927(VS.85).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686946(VS.85).aspx
a mutex seems to be nothing else than a special case of a
Tim,
> ... why use a Semaphore rather than a Mutex?
as much as I understood the documentation at MSDN
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686927(VS.85).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686946(VS.85).aspx
a mutex seems to be nothing else than a special case of a semaphore?
Th
GHUM wrote:
hSem = win32event.CreateSemaphore (None, 1,
1,"stringincludinginterfaceandport")
rt=win32event.WaitForSingleObject (hSem, 0)
if rt != win32event.WAIT_TIMEOUT:
really_do_start_my_app()
else:
print "application allready running"
to make sure that only ONE instance of the applicat
On 29 Ago, 13:28, GHUM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello,
>
> in my application I am using
>
> hSem = win32event.CreateSemaphore (None, 1,
> 1,"stringincludinginterfaceandport")
> rt=win32event.WaitForSingleObject (hSem, 0)
> if rt != win32event.WAIT_TIMEOUT:
> really_do_start_my_app()
> else:
GHUM wrote:
> hello,
>
> in my application I am using
>
> hSem = win32event.CreateSemaphore (None, 1,
> 1,"stringincludinginterfaceandport")
> rt=win32event.WaitForSingleObject (hSem, 0)
> if rt != win32event.WAIT_TIMEOUT:
>really_do_start_my_app()
> else:
>print "application allready ru
