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# Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Oprea Dan
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
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# with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
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# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
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#class used to handle one application instance mechanism
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class GUIApplicationInstance:
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#specify the base for control files
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def __init__( self, base_control_file, raise_cmd = '' ):
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self.pid_file = base_control_file + '.pid'
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self.raise_file = base_control_file + '.raise'
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self.raise_cmd = raise_cmd
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#remove raise_file is already exists
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os.remove( self.raise_file )
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self.check( raise_cmd )
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self.start_application()
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#check if the current application is already running
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def check( self, raise_cmd ):
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#check if the pidfile exists
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if not os.path.isfile( self.pid_file ):
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#read the pid from the file
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file = open( self.pid_file, 'rt' )
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#check if the process with specified by pid exists
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os.kill( pid, 0 ) #this will raise an exception if the pid is not valid
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print "The application is already running ! (pid: %s)" % pid
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file = open( self.raise_file, 'wt' )
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file.write( raise_cmd )
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exit(0) #exit raise an exception so don't put it in a try/except block
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#called when the single instance starts to save it's pid
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def start_application( self ):
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file = open( self.pid_file, 'wt' )
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file.write( str( os.getpid() ) )
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#called when the single instance exit ( remove pid file )
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def exit_application( self ):
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os.remove( self.pid_file )
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#check if the application must to be raised
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#return None if no raise needed, or a string command to raise
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def raise_command( self ):
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if os.path.isfile( self.raise_file ):
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file = open( self.raise_file, 'rt' )
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ret_val = file.read()
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os.remove( self.raise_file )