RE: Sharing *EXCL locks (Was: Displaying objects in other job's QTEMP library)

-----Original Message-----
From: mi400-admin@midrange.com [mailto:mi400-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Simon Coulter
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 1:16 AM

JT wrote:
> One I couldn't see is whether there's anyway to share *EXCL object locks
> across 2 jobs...?

Simon replied ...

>Jeez!  It wouldn't be much of an exclusive lock if it were shared across
>multiple jobs.


Win32 does not think the idea of multiple threads sharing a lock is a far
fetched idea.  It provides a series of locking and syncronizing primitives,
the variable count semaphore being one of them.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/createsemaphore.asp?fra
me=true

The iSeries could improve on this even further by providing permanent,
library resident, variable count semaphore objects.

Steve Richter