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Bug 343664

Summary:	--launcher.openFile not properly working for multiple eclipse instances
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Ruben Jenster <rjenster>
Component:	Launcher	Assignee:	Project Inbox <equinox.launcher-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	aniefer, pwebster, remy.suen
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Ruben Jenster

2011-04-22 14:59:29 EDT

Build Identifier: 

If a second instance of eclipse is opened and closed again all successive calls of 'eclipse --launcher.openFile <file>' will start a new eclipse instance.

Expected behaviour: 'eclipse --launcher.openFile <file>' should use the existing (here the first) eclipse instance

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run 'eclipse', to start a first instance
2. run 'eclipse', to start a second instance
3. close the second instance
4. run 'eclipse --launcher.openFile <file>'

Comment 1 Andrew Niefer

2011-04-25 11:23:07 EDT

This is a problem on the SWT side.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 316821 ***