Re: how to handle open() of ifs file and checking if busy

[Jim Franz <franz9000@xxxxxxxxx>]

great resource - thx

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Kevin Bucknum <Kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> It's old - but these two pages are what I use.
> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_i5_54/apis/open.htm
> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_i5_54/apis/unix14.htm
>
>
>
>
>
> Kevin Bucknum
> Senior Programmer Analyst
> MEDDATA/MEDTRON
> Tel: 985-893-2550
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Bradley Stone
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 8:43 AM
> To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
> Subject: Re: how to handle open() of ifs file and checking if busy
>
> I believe it's in QSYSINC file H member ERRNO.
>
> I don't think this is installed by default, though.
>
> Brad
> www.bvstools.com
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Jim Franz <franz9000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > c                   eval      fd = open(%trim(filename):
> > c                                  O_CREAT+O_WRONLY+O_CODEPAGE:
> > c                                  S_IRWXO+S_IRWXU+S_IRWXG:
> > c                                  819)
> > c                   if        fd < 0
> > c                   callp     die('open(): ' + %str(strerror(errno)))
> > c                   eval      @errflag='Y'
> > c                   endif
> >
> > Where can I find the list of values returned from open() so I can code
>
> > for a busy issue?
> > (This is early 2000's code copied from Scott's samples.
> >
> > Jim Franz
> > --