Re: Is job x running

[Tim Bronski <tim.bronski@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not disagreeing with you.

On 11/20/2014 2:25 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> There's some truth to that.  Domino on IBM i came up with a couple of
> custom commands
> DLTDOMSMEM - Delete Domino Shared Memory
> DLTDOMSEM - Delete Domino Semaphores
> DLTSTSHMEM - Delete Sametime Shared Memory
> just to clean up stuff.
> However, just because there are risks is no reason to totally avoid
> certain operations.  You just have to know what you are doing and do it
> carefully.
> - Some may never divide because that would avoid the possibility of any
> divide by zero operations.
> - Some may never use pointers because they heard back in the 60's that
> they could crash their mainframe by using pointers wrong.
> If mutexes are (not saying they are), but if they are the best fit I
> wouldn't discard them out of hand because of some difficulty in learning
> how to use them properly.
>
>
> Rob Berendt