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`bindiff --ui` should bring existing UI to foreground

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
desktop-dev

Research direction

Start by tracing the BinDiff UI startup path and the socket server handling used by bindiff --ui. Reproduce two invocations on a supported operating system, then verify that the first UI remains open and the second invocation brings it to the foreground instead of exiting.

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Description

enhancement

Steps to reproduce the problem:

  1. Run bindiff --ui
  2. Run bindiff --ui again

What is the expected behavior?

One instance of the UI should open and the second invocation should bring it into foreground.

What went wrong?

The second BinDiff UI exits, because it cannot listen on its socket server port.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

BinDiff 7, any OS

Any other comments?

Likely implementation not in core, but in UI itself.

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