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

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Hi;

On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 13:47 +0200, Marco Barisione wrote:
> Emmanuele Bassi wrote:

> >> 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.

Mmmh, right.

> > 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?

With modification for using sockets on win32 instead of a named pipe.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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