in reply to RFC: A new module to help avoid running multiple instances of the same script (via cron, for example)

On *nix systems, if you know the pid of the process in question, you can also send it a signal 0, and check the results. Might be helpful....

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Re^2: RFC: A new module to help avoid running multiple instances of the same script (via cron, for example)
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 02, 2009 at 20:22 UTC
    He's already doing that.