FvwmMFL: fix singletion/locking mechanism #1057
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farblos
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Aug 21, 2024
farblos
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Aug 21, 2024
| delete_pid_file(); | ||
| unlink(lockfile); | ||
| unlink(socket_name); | ||
| rmdir(socket_basepath); |
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Oh, and you probably should not just replace delete_pid_file() by unlink(lockfile), but also complement all calls to unlink(socket_name) by a call to unlink(lockfile) (plus closing the lock file handle)? There are at least two calls to unlink(socket_name) in main that do not also care about the lock file.
Or did I miss something here?
There can only ever be one single instance of FvwmMFL running per FVWM instance/$DISPLAY. Currently, this is done with logging the PID of the running FvwmMFL process and using that to look up a process with the same PID. This is fragile though as the pid in the saved file might not be the samae PID of FvwmMFL -- therefore, FvwmMFL wouldn't start. Instead, switch to using a lock file which is predicated per $DISPLAY -- achieving the same result, but less error prone. Fixes #1054
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There can only ever be one single instance of FvwmMFL running per FVWM instance/$DISPLAY.
Currently, this is done with logging the PID of the running FvwmMFL process and using that to look up a process with the same PID. This is fragile though as the pid in the saved file might not be the samae PID of FvwmMFL -- therefore, FvwmMFL wouldn't start.
Instead, switch to using a lock file which is predicated per $DISPLAY -- achieving the same result, but less error prone.
Fixes #1054