On 01/03/2012 02:35 AM, James C wrote:
What now strikes me as more likely is: - each process from each version of LibreOffice cooperates with other processes, so that only one LO process is running - (probably) the cooperation extends across versions - I don't recall whether I got a window, or only a change of current application - I may have had a change to an already-running process from the other version - (probably) closing that to retry enabled me to have the version I wanted
Yes, that's another source of confusion. Upon startup, an soffice instance tries to connect to a "named pipe" with a well-known name (and sets that pipe up in listening mode if it does not yet exist). That way, only one instance will ever be running for a given installation. The well-known name contains (a hash of) the user installation path, so whenever two installations would share a user installation, they are connected in this way. (See desktop/source/app/officeipcthread.cxx for details.)
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