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Hot Network Questions. Question feed. Why not rely on those functions instead of using the "file hack"? Show 8 more comments. Caleb Caleb Caleb - Please explain why both a PID file and a lock file would be used. It seems a PID file would be sufficient.
If the PID file exists, the PID could be checked to see if the process is running, just takes less steps than check for a lockfile, checking for a PID file, and then verifying the existence of the process. MVaughan To avoid race conditions if nothing else. Some apps have uses for times when the still need the PID but can relinquish the lock. But at a more fundamental level if you overload one file for both operations you open the door to failures such as a crash leaving an inconsistent state on the system.
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Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Stack Gives Back Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses. Featured on Meta. The state of the information in the lock file has no bearing on the state of the database. If a lock file becomes corrupted, everything in the database should still work correctly.
However, you may see scrambled text instead of user names in any lock conflict messages. With Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, you can output a list of users who are logged into a specific database. For more information about how to do this and sample code, see How to determine who is logged on to a database by using Microsoft Jet UserRoster in Access.
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