0002971: Crawl makes it easy to accidentally run two copies of Crawl at once, and damage your game, on Windows.

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(0009709) KiloByte (manager) 2010-12-13 10:50	Yes, this is a grave bug. It has been fixed in 0.8 already, first for saves and recently for the database. It might be somewhat tricky to port the fix to 0.7 -- but the possible damage might warrant doing that. What would you guys say?

(0009717) evilmike (developer) 2010-12-13 13:56	This probably isn't something that will happen to people too often, but damaged saves are never a good thing. If porting the fix to 0.7 is difficult, maybe a less robust solution could be implemented in the time being, like making it so only one instance of crawl.exe can be loaded at a time (a fairly common behaviour for games in windows). Running multiple instances could be achieved through a command line option or something.

(0010621) jasonspiro (reporter) 2011-01-24 02:18	I like evilmike's idea of forbidding multiple crawl instances in 0.7.x. And I don't see any need for letting people run multiple instances of 0.7.x at once, even with a command-line option. It's convenient but never necessary.

(0010622) due (developer) 2011-01-24 02:39	jasonspiro: crawl.develz.org, crawl.akrasiac.org are two instances of public servers that require being able to run multiple instances of crawl at once.

(0011463) jpeg (manager) 2011-03-03 22:33	I rather doubt we'll do another bugfix release for 0.7 with 0.8 this close.

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