Re: [Mingw-users] How to write a "proper" Win32 daemon using MinGW?

[Cristiano S. <sum...@gm...>]

Maybe is trying to say that he needs only one instance running.

Inter Process Communication?

An alternative if shared memory is available is to write some value at an
shared scope.
Then each new program instance should check if this global value( magic
number ) exists then the second instance should abort or terminate( signal
on pthreads? ) the second running program.
Write the PID and program name at shared scope and each new instance should
check those values are still valid.

Your application will write files, so can not you write a pid file?

Some socket pipe stuff?