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Hi Chris,

Does anyone have a sample code in CL for checking and waiting for a lock
to clear for a file / directory in the IFS?

I assume you mean a stream file, right? I don't know of any way to wait on a directory, since folks don't generally hold a lock on a directory. So you'd have to wait until every object in the directory is unused.

Hmmm.. I've never attempted to do this in CL, only in RPG. But, as long as you're able to use ILE CL in V5R4 or later, it should be possible in CL.

Here's how I'd code it (this is off the top of my head, but should be very close to being correct):

PGM
DCL VAR(&FILE) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(500)
DCL VAR(&NULL) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(1) VALUE(x'00')
DCL VAR(&FD) TYPE(*INT) LEN(4) VALUE(-1)
DCL VAR(&RC) TYPE(*INT) LEN(4) VALUE(-1)
DCL VAR(&FLAGS) TYPE(*INT) LEN(4) VALUE(0)
DCL VAR(&ERRPTR) TYPE(*PTR)
DCL VAR(&ERRNO) TYPE(*INT) LEN(4) +
STG(*BASED) BASPTR(&ERRPTR)
DCL VAR(&ERRDEC) TYPE(*DEC) LEN(4 0)
DCL VAR(&ERRCHR) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(4)
DCL VAR(&ERRID) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(7)
DCL VAR(&O_RDONLY) TYPE(*INT) LEN(4) VALUE(1)
DCL VAR(&O_NOSHARE) TYPE(*INT) LEN(4) VALUE(524288)

/* &O_RDONLY = Open the IFS file for reading only. +
&O_NOSHARE = Do not share the IFS file with anyone +
(the manual calls this O_SHARE_NONE) */

CHGVAR VAR(&FLAGS) VALUE(&O_RDONLY + &O_NOSHARE)
CHGVAR VAR(&FILE) VALUE('/tmp/test.txt' *CAT &NULL)

DOUNTIL (&ERRID *NE 'CPE3029')

CHGVAR VAR(&ERRID) VALUE(' ')

CALLPRC PRC('open') PARM((&FILE *BYREF) +
(&FLAGS *BYVAL)) +
RTNVAL(&FD)
IF (&FD *NE -1) DO
CHGVAR VAR(&ERRID) VALUE(' ')
CALLPRC PRC('close') PARM((&FD *BYVAL)) +
RTNVAL(&RC)
ENDDO
ELSE DO
CALLPRC PRC('__errno') RTNVAL(&ERRPTR)
CHGVAR VAR(&ERRDEC) VALUE(&ERRNO)
CHGVAR VAR(&ERRCHR) VALUE(&ERRDEC)
CHGVAR VAR(&ERRID) VALUE('CPE' *CAT &ERRCHR)
IF (&ERRID *EQ 'CPE3029') THEN(DLYJOB DLY(1))
ENDDO

ENDDO

IF (&ERRID *NE ' ') DO
SNDPGMMSG MSGID(&ERRID) MSGF(QCPFMSG) MSGTYPE(*ESCAPE)
RETURN
ENDDO

ENDPGM


Once again, I want to stress that this is ILE (not OPM) CL. And it requires V5R4 or later to work properly. To compile it, you need to do the following:

CRTCLMOD WAITIFS SRCFILE(xxx/xxx)
CRTPGM WAITIFS BNDDIR(QC2LE)


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