[Info-vax] K-mutex

[Jose Baars]

On Dec 14, 11:18 pm, Pierre <pierre.... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 14, 7:43 pm, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
>
> the easiest way to emulate semaphores with the DLM is to use a lock
> with a value block. this method is not fault-tolerant but neither are
> semaphores (if a process crash before freeing the resource slot, this
> slot may be totally  lost).
>

Wouldn't the crash of a process holding an EX lock cause the lock to
be released
or freed by a dead lock search?