[Info-vax] Byte range locking - was Re: Oracle on VMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <o0tsmk$3hv$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> 
> The reason I've asked how *ix does the job is that it's my impression that to do 
> other than agreed upon fixed length data locks, it seems that otherwise would 
> have to know a bit more about the data.  That's a bit different from what I've 
> done in the past, and how the VMS DLM works.

   UNIX doesn't do it.  The application (or DBMS) writer gets to roll
   his own.  IBM dontated a DLM to Linux, if I was writing my own I
   might start there.