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7 programming techniques that quietly make you elite

Writing smaller programs means that they’re easier to maintain, and they can help you accomplish a wider range of tasks. You ...
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How to make a unix program only run one at a time?

I'm looking for insight into how to write some code so that my program can reliably detect if there are other instances of itself running so that I only get one at a time.<BR><BR>Under BeOS this is ...