Qt: Best practice for a single instance app protec

Question

QSingleApplication? QMutex? QSharedMemory? I'm looking for something that will work smoothly in Windows, OSX and Linux (Ubuntu). Using Qt 4.7.1

Answer 1

for linux:

//----------------------------------

QProcess *m_prSystemCall;
m_prSystemCall = new QProcess();

QString Commnd = "pgrep  " + qApp->applicationDisplayName();
m_prSystemCall->start(Commnd);
m_prSystemCall->waitForFinished(8000);
QString output(m_prSystemCall->readAllStandardOutput());
QStringList AppList = output.split("\n", QString::SkipEmptyParts);
qDebug() <<"pgrep out:"<<AppList;
for(int i=0;i<AppList.size()-1;i++)
{
    Commnd = "kill " + AppList.at(i);
    m_prSystemCall->start(Commnd);
    m_prSystemCall->waitForFinished(8000);
}

//-------------------------------------------------------

and for Windows:

#include <tlhelp32.h>
#include <comdef.h>

QString pName = qApp->applicationDisplayName();
pName += ".exe";
PROCESSENTRY32 entry;
entry.dwSize = sizeof(PROCESSENTRY32);

HANDLE snapshot = CreateToolhelp32Snapshot(TH32CS_SNAPPROCESS, NULL);

if (Process32First(snapshot, &entry) == TRUE)
{
    DWORD myPID =  GetCurrentProcessId();
    while (Process32Next(snapshot, &entry) == TRUE)
    {
        const WCHAR* wc = entry.szExeFile ;
        _bstr_t b(wc);
        const char* c = b;

        if (stricmp(c, pName.toStdString().c_str()) == 0)
        {
            HANDLE hProcess = OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, FALSE, entry.th32ProcessID);

            qDebug() <<"myPID: "<< myPID << "entry.th32ProcessID" << entry.th32ProcessID;
            if(myPID != entry.th32ProcessID)
                TerminateProcess(hProcess,0);
            QThread::msleep(10);
            CloseHandle(hProcess);
        }
    }

}

CloseHandle(snapshot);