Implement unique application instance checks

src/libprs500/__init__.py

@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ __docformat__ = "epytext"
 __author__    = "Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"
 __appname__   = 'libprs500'
 
-import sys, os, logging, mechanize, locale, copy, cStringIO, re, subprocess, textwrap
+import sys, os, logging, mechanize, locale, copy, cStringIO, re, subprocess, \
+       textwrap, atexit
 from gettext import GNUTranslations
 from math import floor
 from optparse import OptionParser as _OptionParser
@@ -409,3 +410,34 @@ def relpath(target, base=os.curdir):
 
     rel_list = [os.pardir] * (len(base_list)-i) + target_list[i:]
     return os.path.join(*rel_list)
+
+_lock_file = None
+def singleinstance(name):
+    '''
+    Return True if no other instance of the application identified by name is running, 
+    False otherwise.
+    @param name: The name to lock.
+    @type name: string 
+    '''
+    if iswindows:
+        from win32event import CreateMutex
+        from win32api import CloseHandle, GetLastError
+        from winerror import ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS
+        mutexname = 'mutexforsingleinstanceof'+__appname__+name
+        mutex =  CreateMutex(None, False, mutexname)
+        if mutex:
+            atexit.register(CloseHandle, mutex)
+        return not GetLastError() == ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS
+    else:
+        import fcntl
+        global _lock_file
+        path = os.path.expanduser('~/.'+__appname__+'_'+name+'.lock')
+        try:
+            f = open(path, 'w')
+            fcntl.lockf(f.fileno(), fcntl.LOCK_EX|fcntl.LOCK_NB)
+            _lock_file = f
+            return True
+        except IOError:
+            return False
+        
+    return True

src/libprs500/gui2/main.py

@@ -1009,11 +1009,17 @@ class Main(MainWindow, Ui_MainWindow):
 
 def main(args=sys.argv):
     from PyQt4.Qt import QApplication
+    from libprs500 import singleinstance
+    
     pid = os.fork() if islinux else -1
     if pid <= 0:
         app = QApplication(args)    
         QCoreApplication.setOrganizationName(ORG_NAME)
-        QCoreApplication.setApplicationName(APP_UID)        
+        QCoreApplication.setApplicationName(APP_UID)
+        if not singleinstance('main GUI'):
+            QMessageBox.critical(None, 'Cannot Start '+__appname__, 
+                                 '<p>%s is already running.</p>'%__appname__)
+            return 1
         initialize_file_icon_provider()
         try:
             main = Main()

src/libprs500/library/database.py

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ def _lock(path):
 def _connect(path):
     if isinstance(path, unicode):
         path = path.encode('utf-8')
-    _lock(path)
+    #_lock(path)
     conn =  sqlite.connect(path, detect_types=sqlite.PARSE_DECLTYPES|sqlite.PARSE_COLNAMES)
     conn.row_factory = lambda cursor, row : list(row)
     conn.create_aggregate('concat', 1, Concatenate)