records not locking?

[Fairlight]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 11:45:35AM -0500, Mike Schwartz thus spoke:
>      If I recall correctly, a write of a file closes ALL the aliased lookups
> to that file.  (I'm sure somebody will correct me if that's no longer
> correct, but that's a rule I obey when I program...)  You never want to do
> this:  Update a few fields, WRITE, reopen, update a few fields, write...
> This will just kill your performance, if nothing else...

It's correct.  Adding to that, doing a CLOSE in a nested table on a lookup
alias closes -all- lookups to the same file, even if the aliases/lookups
are in a parent table.  I would expect WRITE to behave similarly stupidly.

As for the documentation issue...I stand corrected.  Although...whatever
Bob Stockler ran through troff to generate his fp.man page does -not- have
that information.

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