On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Igor Brezac wrote: > No, a lock (a locker to be more precise) is released when the process > exits. You will get a locker leak if you manually kill the process. I
I see. A locker isn't a lock, but access to the locks themselves? I should go read the DB3/DB4.2 API docs. But they are quite horrid, bleah. > suppose this is a bug. Only if a locker precludes other lockers to work (e.g. by holding an exclusive lock) when it should not been doing so. > True, and the process will hold a locker (maybe more, depending on how > many database files the process needs to open) during its lifetime. Hmm... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
