/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */ /* vim:set ts=2 sw=2 sts=2 et cindent: */ /* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */ #ifndef MULTIINSTANCELOCK_H #define MULTIINSTANCELOCK_H #ifdef XP_WIN # include #endif // These functions manage "multi-instance locks", which are a type of lock // specifically designed to allow instances of an application, process, or other // task to detect when other instances relevant to them are running. Each // instance opens a lock and holds it for the duration of the task of interest // (which may be the lifetime of the process, or a shorter period). Then while // the lock is open, it can be used to check whether any other instances of the // same task are currently running out of the same copy of the binary, in the // context of any OS user. A process can open any number of locks, so long as // they use different names. It is necessary for the process to have permission // to create files in /tmp/ on POSIX systems or ProgramData\[vendor]\ on // Windows, so this mechanism may not work for sandboxed processes. // The implementation is based on file locking. An empty file is created in a // systemwide (not per-user) location, and a shared (read) lock is taken on that // file; the value that OpenMultiInstanceLock() returns is the file // handle/descriptor. When you call IsOtherInstanceRunning(), it will attempt to // convert that shared lock into an exclusive (write) lock. If that operation // would succeed, it means that there must not be any other shared locks // currently taken on that file, so we know there are no other instances // running. This is a more complex design than most file locks or most other // concurrency mechanisms, but it is necessary for this use case because of the // requirement that an instance must be able to detect other instances that were // started later than it was. If, say, a mutex were used, or another kind of // exclusive lock, then the first instance that tried to take it would succeed, // and be unable to tell that another instance had tried to take it later and // failed. This mechanism allows any number of instances started at any time in // relation to one another to always be able to detect that the others exist // (although it does not allow you to know how many others exist). The lock is // guaranteed to be released if the process holding it crashes or is exec'd into // something else, because the file is closed when that happens. The file itself // is not necessarily always deleted on POSIX, because it isn't possible (within // reason) to guarantee that unlink() is called, but the file is empty and // created in the /tmp directory, so should not be a serious problem. namespace mozilla { #ifdef XP_WIN using MultiInstLockHandle = HANDLE; # define MULTI_INSTANCE_LOCK_HANDLE_ERROR INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE #else using MultiInstLockHandle = int; # define MULTI_INSTANCE_LOCK_HANDLE_ERROR -1 #endif /* * nameToken should be a string very briefly naming the lock you are creating * creating, and it should be unique except for across multiple instances of the * same application. The vendor name is included in the generated path, so it * doesn't need to be present in your supplied name. Try to keep this name sort * of short, ideally under about 64 characters, because creating the lock will * fail if the final path string (the token + the path hash + the vendor name) * is longer than the platform's maximum path and/or path component length. * * installPath should be the path to the directory containing the application, * which will be used to form a path specific to that installation. * * Returns MULTI_INSTANCE_LOCK_HANDLE_ERROR upon failure, or a handle which can * later be passed to the other functions declared here upon success. */ MultiInstLockHandle OpenMultiInstanceLock(const char* nameToken, const char16_t* installPath); void ReleaseMultiInstanceLock(MultiInstLockHandle lock); // aResult will be set to true if another instance *was* found, false if not. // Return value is true on success, false on error (and aResult won't be set). bool IsOtherInstanceRunning(MultiInstLockHandle lock, bool* aResult); // It is possible that the path we have is on a case insensitive // filesystem in which case the path may vary depending on how the // application is called. We want to normalize the case somehow. // When aAppFile is NULL, this function returns a nsIFile with a normalized // path for the currently running binary. When aAppFile is not null, // this function ensures the file path is properly normalized. already_AddRefed GetNormalizedAppFile(nsIFile* aAppFile); }; // namespace mozilla #endif // MULTIINSTANCELOCK_H