Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!daver!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Is HDB locking safe? Message-ID: <26BED1FF.1906@tct.uucp> Date: 7 Aug 90 14:36:46 GMT References: <577@oglvee.UUCP> Organization: ComDev/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 9 According to jr@oglvee.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg): >HDB assumes that if the pid recorded in the lock file no longer >corresponds to an active process, the lock file is defunct and >can safely be removed. I can't for the life of me figure out a >safe way of doing this. There isn't one. Sorry. -- Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT ,