Re: GUnique [Was: gnome-utils branched for GNOME 2.16]

[Marco Barisione <marco barisione org>]

Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > > Is this API appropriate for GTK+ and adaptable for use with Windows
> > > and OS X?
> > OS X could use the bacon backend (that uses Unix domain sockets).
> >
> > On Windows AF_UNIX is not available, but Windows has named pipes that 
> > are more similar to sockets than to Unix named pipes. However only the 
> > client part of named pipes is supported on Windows 9x/Me.
>
> Single instance applications on Windows NT/XP use the named mutex
> pattern[1], to which we can provide a nice wrapper using GUnique I
> think.

I know but GUniqueApp requires communication between the "server" and 
the "client", using named mutex you can't communicate.

> I think we can use a platform-based approach:
>
>   * D-Bus, Xlibs and bacon on *nix on a soft dependency basis;
>   * bacon on OS X;
>   * named mutex and bacon on win32.

Bacon on win32?

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