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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-11-09 13:14:22 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> ...but the ability to use the DLM to notify everyone else that some 
> activity or program is running is a far better approach than having to 
> use lock files to indicate that.

You're asking for a job scheduler.

DLM might well be part of that scheduler implementation. But as an 
interprocess notification and coordination mechanism, the DLM API... 
does not deal easily with the common cases.



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