Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!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, 07 Jan 2013 02:53:02 -0600 Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:53:02 +0000 From: lipska the kat 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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 25 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-axoMcQ0whjLNVOwSwmmMi0kQcWjUO45/mobi1WVfzwMAgyivNvS5dpDGg6uv3OSPyaNqPLwC6j1BN7M!Ca08jn3IhGs42/hSGv5NeLPdc1wr4EWFjkwMMIeep36oTQPYMIRKvBYBoYfi/N8fXMBbx/GQKVw= 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: 2443 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:21142 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 lipska -- Lipska the Kat©: Troll hunter, sandbox destroyer and farscape dreamer of Aeryn Sun