[Info-vax] counting-lock ?

[Pierre]

On Oct 22, 10:41 pm, H Vlems <hvl... at freenet.de> wrote:

> Correct, externally stored resources won't work because you can't be
> sure that an error condition leaves the counter mechanism intact.
> Though a logical that exists only during the life of a process might
> work. Like a logical defined with the /USER attribute only exists
> until the next program ends.

yes. but multiple servers will run in separated processes and (from
the top of my head) wont have access to other process' user mode
logicals.