Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 02:31:24 -0600 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:31:22 +0000 From: lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> Organization: Trollbusters 3 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120410 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: single instance References: <1rxjd74kjrhfc.mdbq9v09dxbn$.dlg@40tude.net> <50e8e7ea$0$282$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <50ea23ce$0$285$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <512a9fc7$0$287$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> In-Reply-To: <512a9fc7$0$287$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 38 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-Vu3hrAUYSEhbG8Rb63D0EWHwaoAReRxoxBqyXfyzE09YfNckqqXsl9SF7qxlk7jBOnP1tsziGsDhN3W!oBEgti9FJes7PHnWqHRzztsJyvTEqkTKPRQ4TAsxM77y6WQRvMcjfPuQmWbf3LgUTfNv5FKfl2o= X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2951 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:22498 On 24/02/13 23:18, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > On 1/7/2013 3:53 AM, lipska the kat wrote: >> On 07/01/13 01:46, Twirlip of the Mists wrote: >>> On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:24:29 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >>> >>>> On 1/6/2013 7:22 PM, Twirlip of the Mists wrote: >>>>> On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:56:37 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >>>>>> On 1/4/2013 1:44 PM, Twirlip of the Mists wrote: >>>>>>> The concept of a PID is platform-agnostic -- all Unices seem to >>>>>>> have it, >>>>>>> MacOS is a Unix nowadays, and newer Windowses have PIDs. It'd be >>>>>>> surprising >>>>>>> if there isn't a platform-agnostic way to get at PIDs -- a POSIX >>>>>>> call that >>>>>>> Windows supports, most likely. >> >> [snip] >> >>> DOS also lacked multitasking. >>> >>> And lacking multitasking makes the issue of multiple concurrent >>> instances >>> of a single program rather moot, wouldn't you say? >> >> Classic ... now watch him wriggle out of that one > > You mean that you could not see the irrelevancy of that Am I in a time warp ... "Scotty, warp factor 11 NOW" "She cannae take it Captain" lipskaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.............. -- Lipska the Kat©: Troll hunter, sandbox destroyer and farscape dreamer of Aeryn Sun