Lockfiles vs record locks (was Re: Record Is Being Updated - Access Denied)

Walter D Vaughan Jr wvaughan at steelerubber.com
Wed Jun 12 10:54:03 PDT 2013


<rant>
> Once again...
> Lockfiles have nothing to do with record locking.
> Nothing.  Nada.  Zip.  Zilch.  Gornisht.
> </rant>

[Walter D Vaughan Jr] 

Probably too late now, but a more user friendly nomenclature might have been
to name them "inuse.flg" in the filesystem, and... 
Perhaps call it the filePro "Current Activity Indicator" at the UX level

Something for the filePro 6.0.0 branch, since it would be an API change
http://semver.org/



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