[virt-tools-list] [PATCH virt-viewer] Use a mutex to check if VirtViewer running, v2

Marc-André Lureau marcandre.lureau at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 09:31:29 UTC 2012


On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Patch looks good, one question below:
>
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 01:21:10AM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>> +Function .onInit
>> +retry:
>> + System::Call 'kernel32::CreateMutexA(i 0, i 0, t "VirtViewerMutex") i .r1 ?e'
>
> I don't really understand the i.r1 here, is it needed?
> http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Allow_only_one_installer_instance also warns

It is needed to receive the handle, and be able to close it, so we can
recreate it again when retrying, without incrementing it's usage

> against CreateMutexA when using a unicode nsis, have you checked the mutex
> name or are you sure we are not using a unicode nsis?

At least I have checked it works, so I assume there is no issue there.



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Marc-André Lureau




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