Xavier Toth wrote:

> What is the actual mechanism used to determine whether to start a new
> instance or use an existing one? I know that if I supply a unique
> directory name as in -env:UserInstallation=<directory name> I can get
> multiple instances to run but what exactly is happening? Is OO stating
> the directory or looking for something like a pid file in the
> directory? I'm asking because I am working with directory
> polyinstantiation under Fedora Core 7 using SELinux and am
> polyinstantiating $HOME/.openoffice.org2.0 which means that different
> instance directories get mounted on  $HOME/.openoffice.org2.0
> depending on your security context.

There's a lockfile in the OOo profile that is used to prevent concurrent
access to this directory.

Ciao,
Mathias

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OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS
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