oct
25
2009
Detecting if your application is already running in C/C++
how to detect if your application is already running in C/C++?
The Mutex may seem like a weird and wonderful term, but it is simply a means of creating a unique process ID within the windows operating system. You can use these values for many different means, but here it is being used to uniquely identify our application. Once the Mutex value has been created, we can then detect for its existance, and action on whether it is found.
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