On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 01:15:30PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: :but if you kill the netscape process, then it :isn't still running somewhere on your machine and :deleting the lock file is perfectly valid. :isn't it? :comments anyone?
Perfectly true however, in the following case (removal before starting), that isn't assured. Infact it's possible for Netscape to crash taking all it's windows with it, but leaving a thrashing process in the background. I don't know what affect removing the lock file has with a dead but not gone Netscape process lurking around. :> > You can do it the other way round: remove the :> file before starting :> > it, like :> > :> > rm ~/.netscape/lock 2> /dev/null :> > netscape :> :> I would consider that a bad idea because it :> would really make the :> lockfile totally obsolete. And doesn't stop you :> starting netscape if :> another one is still running (more or less) :> somewhere on your :> machine.
