That wasn't the variation that I thought I remembered, but it seems to work fine--if not quite how I expected*--under win32.

*It certainly prevents a second copy of the script from being run, but for reasons I dont understand yet, you don't get to see the "Program is already running\n"; message. Leastwise, not without playing games with sleeps and stuff. But it does work to the extent that if I start a script in one session and the switch to another and try again, the second attempt terminates immediately. Quite why I don't see the error message is beyond my understanding at the moment. Whether this would work across logons or userids etc I'm not sure.

I'm seem to recall a version that applied the lock using $0, but maybe I'm wrong. I'll have to super search.

Hmm. Maybe I mis-attributed this. All I can find now is Highlander - allow only one invocation at a time of an expensive CGI script and related articles. I know I saw a mechanism that applied the lock to the script itself somewhere--I was certain it was one of merlyn's.

Merlyn?

Update: Seems I did mis-attribute this--though it's maybe understandable given the stolen name :)

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In reply to Re^4: Windows process by BrowserUk
in thread Windows process by qadwjoh

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