This is because (thanks to Leyland) both Windows and Mac are special-cased to
enable the second copy of Audacity to open an IPC path to the first and pass on
the command line argument. The first (main) copy then executes the load and the
second one quits.
Any volunteers to write an equivalent set of functionality for Linux (may be
see how Gimp does this on Linux for inspiration?)
This is because (thanks to Leyland) both Windows and Mac are special-cased to
enable the second copy of Audacity to open an IPC path to the first and pass on
the command line argument. The first (main) copy then executes the load and the
second one quits.
Any volunteers to write an equivalent set of functionality for Linux (may be
see how Gimp does this on Linux for inspiration?)