X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/8d0a0c3f5ac8f2933c084575bebbb62b26a882a0..f1a0855d24dd64a28c69b4ee9228daca724dcfa7:/docs/latex/wx/snglinst.tex diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/snglinst.tex b/docs/latex/wx/snglinst.tex index cab6ba0d4e..296a9314ee 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/snglinst.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/snglinst.tex @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ wxSingleInstanceChecker class allows to check that only a single instance of a program is running. To do it, you should create an object of this class. As long as this object is alive, calls to \helpref{IsAnotherRunning()}{wxsingleinstancecheckerisanotherrunning} from -other processes will return {\tt TRUE}. +other processes will return {\tt true}. As the object should have the life span as big as possible, it makes sense to create it either as a global or in \helpref{wxApp::OnInit}{wxapponinit}. For @@ -30,12 +30,12 @@ bool MyApp::OnInit() { wxLogError(_("Another program instance is already running, aborting.")); - return FALSE; + return false; } ... more initializations ... - return TRUE; + return true; } int MyApp::OnExit() @@ -99,17 +99,26 @@ create the lock file in under Unix (default is \wxheading{Return value} -Returns {\tt FALSE} if initialization failed, it doesn't mean that another +Returns {\tt false} if initialization failed, it doesn't mean that another instance is running - use \helpref{IsAnotherRunning()}{wxsingleinstancecheckerisanotherrunning} to check for it. +\wxheading{Note} + +One of possible reasons while Create may fail on Unix is that the lock file +used for checking already exists but was not created by the user. +Therefore applications shouldn't treat failure of this function as fatal +condition, because doing so would open them to the possibility of a Denial of +Service attack. Instead, they should alert the user about the problem and +offer to continue execution without checking if another instance is running. + \membersection{wxSingleInstanceChecker::IsAnotherRunning}\label{wxsingleinstancecheckerisanotherrunning} \constfunc{bool}{IsAnotherRunning}{\void} -Returns {\tt TRUE} if another copy of this program is already running, {\tt -FALSE} otherwise. +Returns {\tt true} if another copy of this program is already running, {\tt +false} otherwise. \membersection{wxSingleInstanceChecker::\destruct{wxSingleInstanceChecker}}\label{wxsingleinstancecheckerdtor}