Tim:
>> A program ought to be able to detect a stale lock file
>> still remaining and handle it itself.
Joe Zeff:
> And how do you suggest that it detects it?
Other programs manage it, dunno what's so magic about it. It's not a
problem that *I* need to solve.
After a reboot, cron &/or
On 02/27/2024 10:48 AM, Go Canes wrote:
I can think of 2 ways off the top of my head
1) put the lockfile in a memory-based file system like /tmp, /run,
etc. This is probably the "correct" way.
2) compare when the system was booted against when the lock file was
created. If boot time > lock
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 12:46 PM Joe Zeff wrote:
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> On 02/27/2024 10:39 AM, Tim via users wrote:
> > A program ought to be able to detect a stale lock file
> > still remaining and handle it itself.
>
> And how do you suggest that it detects it?
An in-memory semaphore. No lock file required.
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 12:45 PM Joe Zeff wrote:
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> On 02/27/2024 10:39 AM, Tim via users wrote:
> > A program ought to be able to detect a stale lock file
> > still remaining and handle it itself.
>
> And how do you suggest that it detects it?
I can think of 2 ways off the top of my head
On 02/27/2024 10:39 AM, Tim via users wrote:
A program ought to be able to detect a stale lock file
still remaining and handle it itself.
And how do you suggest that it detects it?
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On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 11:19 -0500, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
> Power failure is what left Thunderbird in a state. The lock was in the
> ".thunderbird" tree as a link to a nonexistent file
> "192.168.1.218:+7103". Deleting the entry enabled Thunderbird to start.
Software really ought to
On 2/27/24 10:12, Thomas Cameron wrote:
On 2/27/24 09:08, Tim via users wrote:
Is Thunderbird one of those apps that always runs once started, and
never quits when you close the window?
There have been times in the past where this is the case, but they're
few and far between these days. Not
On 2/27/24 09:08, Tim via users wrote:
Is Thunderbird one of those apps that always runs once started, and
never quits when you close the window?
There have been times in the past where this is the case, but they're
few and far between these days. Not saying it doesn't happen, but I
haven't
On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 08:54 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> Every once in a while, Thunderbird just loses its mind. No idea why. But
> I will generally just rename my ~/.thunderbird directory to something
> like ~/.thunderbird.old and launch Thunderbird again.
Is Thunderbird one of those apps
On 2/26/24 19:44, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
On one of my f39 systems Thundebird fails to start claiming that it is
already running. "ksyguard" from root doesn't show anything I can
recognize as having to do with Thunderbird. Rebooting does not get it to
work. Looked at the ".thunderbird"
On 02/26/2024 06:44 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
On one of my f39 systems Thundebird fails to start claiming that it is
already running. "ksyguard" from root doesn't show anything I can
recognize as having to do with Thunderbird. Rebooting does not get it to
work. Looked at the
On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 8:45 PM Robert McBroom via users
wrote:
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> On one of my f39 systems Thundebird fails to start claiming that it is
> already running. "ksyguard" from root doesn't show anything I can
> recognize as having to do with Thunderbird. Rebooting does not get it to
> work. Looked
On one of my f39 systems Thundebird fails to start claiming that it is
already running. "ksyguard" from root doesn't show anything I can
recognize as having to do with Thunderbird. Rebooting does not get it to
work. Looked at the ".thunderbird" file in the user directory and there
are lots of
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