[Interest] Detecting if the application is already running from another user account

[André Somers]

Op 03/06/2016 om 15:08 schreef Thiago Macieira:
> On sexta-feira, 3 de junho de 2016 11:40:31 BRT Etienne Sandré-Chardonnal
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to detect if my application is already running from another
>> user account and warn the user.
> Create a file in a public place (like /tmp) that indicates it's running. You
> can use a QLockFile, provided the other side always uses tryLock() and never
> lock().
>
Be careful with that. Windows tends to mess with you here, applying the 
same kinds of tricks they introduced for the registry long ago to the 
file system now too.

André