I don't understand what you mean claree0. Can you show me some kind of example. thanks. | [reply] |
Ras,
Assuming that you are doing this on some sort of
unix-like OS, then grepping the output of `ps ax |
grep program.pl | wc -l` ought to give you the current
number of running processes from that program. If 1 then
it is the only instance. If 2 then another is already
running, and you can exit the new instance.
There may be a better way of doing this without making
calls outside perl - I still talk 'perl baby-talk' quite a
lot!
Clare
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