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You're probably thinking about some app not being able to start when some other specific app is running because both were using a GUID copied from SO for implem
by cypressious 6y ago
You're probably thinking about some app not being able to start when some other specific app is running because both were using a GUID copied from SO for implementing single-instance apps.
Possibly the SO question in question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/522874/615306 https://stackoverflow.com/a/522874/615306
- raverbashing 6y agoIt's a good example but I think it's not exactly that. Maybe it was a GUID generation code that would generate the same one for every instance? > I know it has something to do with some mythical thing called a mutex, rarely can I find someone that bothers to stop and explain what one of these are. Oh my
- segfaultbuserr 6y agoIn this particular example, this is not an ignorant bad question. It's a self-QA by an experienced developer.
- segfaultbuserr 6y agoI cannot find the source, but the folklore says a Linux kernel developer wrote a USB tutorial with his USB VID/PID, years later, he found he became the manufacturer of all sorts of gadgets he never heard about.
- izacus 6y agoYeah, it was Docker for Windows and Razer Synapse 3 who couldn't work together because they both copied the same SO code: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1229641258370355200 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1229641258370355200 :)