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Subject: Re: Preventing multiple startups of Gnus by the same user?
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Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> writes:

> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
> > Does there already exist a reliable way to tell either before or
> > during Gnus startup that the same user on the same machine already
> > has a Gnus session running?
> 
> Cf. gnus-alive-p.

OOPS ... I'm sorry, but I wasn't clear enough in my original question,
although thank you very much for your quick reply.

I'll try to do a better job with my question:

Suppose I have started up XEmacs as a certain user on my machine, and
this XEmacs process is running Gnus.  Now, suppose I forget that this
original XEmacs process is evan running and I start XEmacs up all over
again under that same user ID.  Now, suppose I try to start Gnus
under this second XEmacs process.  What I'd like to do is for this
second Gnus to never start up because there's another one running
as the same user ID within a different process.

Unless I'm mistaken, `gnus-alive-p' only checks for an already-running
Gnus within a single XEmacs process.

If this cannot be done directly using Gnus, perhaps XEmacs provides some
functions that I can use to implement this ... ???

Thanks again in advance ...

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com