[Info-vax] Ken Coar's OpenVMS Lock utility sources are available on Sourceforge.

[Marc Van Dyck]

Jon Pinkley submitted this idea :
> On Friday, November 6, 2020 at 11:36:05 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>
> Of the above two, the LCK is more like LOCK, in fact it almost looks like it 
> was written to replace LOCK which was never released for the Alpha on the 
> DECUS tapes or freeware.  From the Docs, it appears to be a proper subset of 
> what LOCK provides.  For example, the only mode is EXCLUSIVE.  It doesn't 
> support passing info with the value block.  Still useful for the most used 
> case, and my intent isn't to denigrate the LCK or NETLOCK utilities, they are 
> useful and the authors were kind to share their work.
>
I'm the author of LCK and would love to find a place to store more
recent versions... It also works on Itanium now. If there is a demand
for locks in other modes than exclusive, I'm ready to give it a try.

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Marc Van Dyck