Re: [pygame] Preventing multiple instances of your game from running (and activating the running copy?)

[Bob Ippolito <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think personal firewalls should care about ports explicitly  
opened on the loopback interface only... At least, it'd be retarded  
if they did.

-bob

On Aug 4, 2006, at 7:36 PM, René Dudfield wrote:

> File based sockets don't work on windows.
>
> Opening up ports for this will be foiled by personal firewalls on some
> windows machines.
> I think a mutex is the way to do this on windows.  Here's a recepie
> that I have not tried:
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/474070
>
> If you make a xplatform solution... please add it to the cookbook!
> http://www.pygame.org/wiki/CookBook
>
>
> On 8/5/06, Richard Jones <richardjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Saturday 05 August 2006 11:48, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> > > If I really had to do something like this, I'd do it with TCP on
> > > 127.0.0.1 plus a marker file in a user-specific directory that said
> > > which port to look for (which is determined at runtime by asking  
> > for
> > > port 0).
> >
> > Or just a file-based socket? Do they work on Windows?
> >
> >
> >     Richard