From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29444 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Zusman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Preventing multiple startups of Gnus by the same user? Date: 07 Mar 2000 23:20:58 -0500 Organization: Linux Hippopotamus Preserve Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035166113 2796 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:08:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:08:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3785D051E for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 23:21:34 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAB04469; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 22:21:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 07 Mar 2000 22:21:03 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA29503 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 22:20:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from ljz.net (ljz.net [205.230.65.138]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FA4CD0520 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 23:20:59 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by ljz.net (Postfix, from userid 510) id 9F7233EC54; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 23:20:58 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "!ga1s|?LNLE3MeeeEYs(%LIl9q[xV9!j4#xf4!**BFW_ihlOb;:Slb>)vy>CJM writes: > Lloyd Zusman writes: > > > 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. > > Does it help if you compile --with-clash-detection (in the hope XEmacs > would then complain if the second Gnus tries to open .newsrc.eld) Hmmm ... I'll have to try that the next time I recompile XEmacs. Does anyone know if I can detect some kind of trappable error if another Gnus has my .newsrc.eld open when running under an XEmacs that's compiled with this option? Thanks for the suggestion! -- Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com