Hi Patrick, On Friday 10 December 2004 04:14, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:52:42PM -0500, Daniel Phillips wrote: > If you call dlm_lock() with the same parameters twice then you will get > two seperate locks - in that case the CR will wait for the PW to get out > of the way. What is really confusing the issue is that both locks are > sharing a lock status block - so it's possible that one lock is being > marked INPROGRESS immediately after the first has completed, in that case > the library will have a lot of difficulty in digging you out of your own > hole I'm afraid as it can't disentangle the status of your two locks. For robustness, dlm_unlock(_wait) ought to return an error in that case. But are these locks supposed to be recursive or not? Regards, Daniel
