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Re: lynx-dev LYNX: user-friendly msg: "Do you REALLY want TWO lynxes run
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev LYNX: user-friendly msg: "Do you REALLY want TWO lynxes running, SIMULTANEOUSLY?" |
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Sun, 25 Aug 2002 15:31:50 -0400 |
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On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 03:04:59PM -0400, David Combs wrote:
> 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.
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> Well, what's *wrong* with having more than
> one lynx process -- when one has NOT intended to?
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> Just off the top of my head:
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> (1) During each's run, he adds a bookmark.
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> (probably ok -- doesn't lynx immediately
> write out a new lynx_bookmarks.html, right then?)
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> But won't the other lynx *never* see it?
no it won't - because lynx doesn't use file-locking. That's doable for
most Unix systems (not reliable across NFS I gather), but not for VMS or DOS.
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