Re: [Gnumed-devel] Launching multiple instances from same directory

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 04:28:11PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> From the command line, I noticed no trouble running GNUmed except recently I 
> started to play with a second instance (in order to log in a second user) 
> while th efirts instance is still running.
> 
> Something about this arrangement causes Apple's X11 (in which I am running 
> GNUmed on Mac) to lock up / freeze / hang i.e. to become unresponsive.
> 
> I was going to supply logs, but then wondered whether launching the second 
> instance from the same directory causes a problem, in that the second might 
> be trying to write to a log file that is already open with the first instance 
> already writing to it?

Yes, that would happen. Whether it explains the problem
remains to be seen.

Karsten
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