[Xastir] Strange question....

[Dan Brown]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Dan Brown wrote:
> 
> > +    /* Save our PID */
> > +
> > +    FILE * MYPID ;
> > +
> > +    MYPID = fopen(get_user_base_dir("xastir.pid"),"w");
> > +    fprintf(MYPID, "%d",getpid());
> > +    fclose (MYPID);
> > +
> 
> > (prolly need to add some code to remove the .pid file, at some point, too,
> > maybe after coffee...)
> 
> A PID file briefly crossed my mind while I was answering the
> question (as in it sure would have been easier if we had one!).
> Having a PID file would be useful during debugging too, when it
> hangs but doesn't die.
> 
> For that matter, if we have a PID file we can detect when we have
> another Xastir running and switch our config files to an alternate
> set, or refuse to bring up the second copy, etc.

Well, that code should do what you need to do - save for removing it at the
end.  I just hadn't had enough (any) coffee, so one round of source code
diving was all for me this morning ;-)


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Dan Brown 
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