multiple instances of standalone under Windows

[Trevor DeVore]

On Jan 29, 2004, at 2:26 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Trevor DeVore wrote:
>
>> On Jan 29, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>>
>>> Polling a directory for a file, while suboptimal, is pretty fast and
>>> would
>>> seem to get the job done, no?
>>
>> Could you run into problems if your app crashed and wasn't able to
>> clean up after itself?  The next time your app launched the file would
>> still be there and your app would shut itself down.
>
> I had thathappen with a CGI.  I changed it so the file contains a 
> timestamp;
> if more than 10 seconds old it deletes it and moves on.
>
> With desktop apps its more complicated, since the length of a session 
> is
> less predictable.
>
> Could a local UDP or TCP call be used for that instead?

It seems like this would be the best method available right now.


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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com