[Installit-dev] "package manager " becomes "InstallIt"

Jannis Pohlmann info at sten-net.de
Wed Sep 7 18:53:26 CEST 2005


Hey Benny,

Benedikt Meurer schrieb:
> Use kill($PID, 0) rather than /proc/$PID and you're ok. Trust me, it's 
> really not worth the trouble with fcntl()/lockf() locking. And we're not 
> developing a critical database, so if a user manages to start two 
> instances of InstallIt, then he'll run into trouble and may remember to 
> read the documentation when he uses a software next time. ;-)

i tried this (it's in SVN, see Core/LockFile and i2t for the usage). It
doesn't really work at all. What did you expect it to do?

Regards,
Jannis



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