Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!amdahl!pccuts!acs
From: acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: vt100 v2.8a bug? (not freeing locks)
Summary: Mebbe so, mebbe so
Message-ID: <685@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com>
Date: 14 Dec 88 05:17:12 GMT
References: <639@cord.UUCP>
Reply-To: acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall)
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Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <639@cord.UUCP> nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock) writes:
>I recently downloaded vt100 v2.8a and found what I believe to be a bug that
>has been around for a long time (my version 2.4 also seems to have it).  It
>is simple:  vt100 is not freeing locks on the directories is downloads into.
>I first noticed this because I like to download into a temporary area, then
>move the stuff where I want it and delete the download directory.  I kept
>getting "object in use", even if I had exited vt100.  Recently, I used xoper
>to look at the locks in the system (vt100 was not running at the time, but
>had been previously).  I found locks from every directory I had used to
>download for the past three days (I run my 2000 all the time).
>
>Has anyone else noticed this?  I would think it should be reasonably easy
>to fix.  Tony?

I'll check into this.  If anyone else can check before I do, please send
e-mail (I can see it now...everyone scurrying off to their Amigi ;-).
I *have* noticed this behaviour before but I always ascribed it to the
archive pgm that I was using (some level or ZOO or, perhaps, ARC).

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