locked file(2)

[Richard Kreiss]

Had a call form a client this AM advising that they could not get into their marketing file.  What actually was happening was that the would enter a value into an index, press enter, and the program would hang showing a blank screen.

 

I logged into their system, accessed the file with no processing running without a problem.

 

I then accessed the file with the debugger on to see where in the auto processing the program was hanging.  It hung as the point where a lookup is done to a file called cstrack.

 

When I tried to access this file from anywhere in filePro, it hung before any filePro prompts came up.  When I tried to delete the indexes from the command prompt, the message file being accessed by another process appeared.  

 

After their IT guys closed all the filePro associated programs that were running on the server, the indexes still had the same problem.

 

I had them reboot the server and everything cleared up. (this was my first choice but they didn’t want to stop working for the 5 minutes the reboot takes).

 

Now to my question: 

 

Would this work under these circumstances?

 

241  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -

       ◄ If:

       Then: lookup cst = cstrack  k=16   i=K -Npxw

242  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -

       ◄ If:         locked(cst)

       Then:         GOTO do_end

 

Richard Kreiss

GCC Consulting

 

 

 

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