lynx-dev LYNX: user-friendly msg: "Do you REALLY want TWO lynxes running, SIMULTANEOUSLY?"

[David Combs]

Inadvertently starting up a 2nd (3rd, 4th) lynx
is sure easy to do -- I just now realized that
I had two of them running, and didn't mean to.

Well, what's *wrong* with having more than
one lynx process -- when one has NOT intended to?

Just off the top of my head:

(1) During each's run, he adds a bookmark.

  (probably ok -- doesn't lynx immediately
  write out a new lynx_bookmarks.html, right then?)

  But won't the other lynx *never* see it?

  And thus it *is* dangerous, because when
  he adds another bookmark from *that* lynx,
  it wipes out the one that the first one added,
  when it "immediately" writes out *its* version
  (vision?) of lynx_bookmarks.html?

(2) His history and V pages will be different --
  important if he backslashes one (both?) to
  html and saves it, to reflect where he's been,
  so he can go back to those places tomorrow.

And there's probably some more.


Comments?

David


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