void gt::Platform::makeSharedFile()
{
if(processIsUnique() && !checkDirExist("/tmp/gfeed")) //If the pipe already exists we'll just use it
if(mkfifo("/tmp/gfeed", 0755) == -1)
throw std::runtime_error("Couldn't create pipe! Check your permissions or if /tmp/gfeed exists");
fd = open("/tmp/gfeed", O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK); // TODO: use streams
if(fd == -1)
throw std::runtime_error("Couldn't open pipe");
if(ld == -1)
ld = open("/var/lock/gtorrent.lock", O_CREAT | O_RDONLY, 0600);
if(ld == -1)
throw std::runtime_error("Couldn't open pipe");
processIsUnique(); // a call here to lock the file
}
/var/lock/gtorrent.lock is not the path we use for the lock- the
ld == -1 checks are redundant since processIsUnique will not return until ld != -1
