[maemo-developers] Check if application is run

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Michael Stepanov wrote:
> On 11/15/07, Eero Tamminen <eero.tamminen at nokia.com> wrote:
>> ext Michael Stepanov wrote:
>>> Thanks for your suggestions. IMHO the most appropriate way (but probably
>> not
>>> easiest) is to use DBUS functionality as Mika Yrjölä described. What do
>> you
>>> think?
>> It depends from whether you're going to use D-BUS for anything else than
>> launching the application (do you need to listen to system events for
>> example like all the pre-installed applications) and how much you care
>> about user not running multiple instances of the application at the same
>> time (accidentally).
> 
> 
> For sure, it should be only one copy the wrapper and SDL application  run at
> the same time. And I don't need any DBUS events except to know that the SDL
> application crashes.
> 
> Some SDL programs for example don't use D-BUS (games might have
>> a Gtk/Hildon UI wrapper for them using D-BUS though).
> 
> 
> In my case I have similar situation. My SDL application doesn't use DBUS. It
> isn't even initialize according to maemo conception (I think it's a good
> point to add it). But the wrapper uses Gtk/Hildon UI.

In that case the wrapper could just exec the program and do wait() on
it.  (see "man wait" on your Linux desktop)


	- Eero