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On 2015-08-27 15:52, ahlan@marriott.org wrote:
> Obviously I'm misunderstanding something here.

I'm not sure you do.
On Linux, I start daemons and the open/lock a named file.
if I try to start the daemon again, the locking part
will fail and the second instance will exit.

But I could not solve it in pure Ada.
The Gnat.lockfile package leaves the file if daemon is killed,
 so no go using gnat-solution.

I created a small posix package

and used function lockf.
But how to do it on XP, I do not know


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Björn