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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Simon Waters wrote: > Why the start-up script for firefox doesn't check for this sort of stale > entry is beyond me (or remove it when it encounters relevant signals), > or use some sort of process linked lock that the OS would clear up > automatically (even better), as this makes firefox on Linux unduely > difficult in the rare event of it crashing. It's probably partly to do with having a locking mechanism which is portable between several operating systems and partly to do with file locking not always working over NFS. Otherwise using fcntl(2) would be the most obvious way to do things. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFErUJ1soRLMhsZpFcRAngeAJ9MFk5M6vVgVmqUrZ8z4qE3dQrrqACghGu7 xs9hXVxbPV2odamiMWMk5XI= =KmZj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html