Hi Markus,

check out this Message# Message ID: 54274 it may help. There are lots of variations on this theme, if you search for "MUTEX" you could find other options.


> Hello,
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> in my program (let's call: MAIN.EXE) i start a second programm (let's call: second.exe) with the run command. The problem now is, that my user can start my programm (=MAIN) several times. The second program can take about 2 minutes to finish - if the user starts my program MAIN during this 2 minutes again, the second program (SECOND) will also start for a second time, third time and s.o. ....
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> If i'm looking in the windows task manager, i can see the processes - how can i check, if the process SECOND.EXE is still running ?
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> Many thanks
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>
> Markus



Frank.

Frank Cazabon
Samaan Systems Ltd.
www.SamaanSystems.com/