Too many users

[Fairlight]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 06:08:08PM +0000, Josh Reader via Filepro-list thus
spoke:
> Similarly to what I posted earlier, you can type
>
> pkill -u filepro
>
> and it will return all user's windows to the main menu and should release
> all licenses.  Obviously anyone in the middle of updating something
> would lose their work but I've done this after hours in order to add new
> fields, etc if there are still users logged into the system.

You're correct.  The shared memory segment is used for one thing, and
one thing only: nattch.  That number is the current license count, full
stop.  When the processes go away, the number of attached processes drops
accordingly and immediately.

Also, there are -two- segments, potentially, if someone is programming
in filePro on the system.  One is for clerk and report, the other is for
cabe. dscreen, dxmaint, and dmoedef don't even use either segment.  They
allocate their addresses as necessary, so the first one created will
correspond to the first program type run when that program type's segment
does not yet exist.  The addresses are also not hardwired, so you need to
make sure you have the correct segment, or you need to get rid of -all-
pertinent processes and delete both segments, if you really want the
nuclear option.

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