On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
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.
In addition, if you kill enough processes you may run out of lockers and you'll start getting all these weird errors that were reported recently.
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