A rust library for single instance application.
single-instance provides a single API to check if there are any other running instance.
Detail
On windows, init SingleInstance
will create a mutex named by given &str
then check error code by calling GetLastError
.
On linux init will bind abstract unix domain socket with given name . On macos, init will create or open a file which path is given &str
,
then call flock
to apply an advisory lock on the open file.
Examples
extern crate single_instance;
use thread;
use SingleInstance;