Cool!  I didn't know KIDS did all that.  So what we now need is to
establish the set of signals that tell a ship that it needs to go into
dry dock for an oil change (or whatever ships do in floating dry docks
when on maneuvers - excuse my skimpy nautical knowledge).

What does KIDS do if a process is in an area that it wants to change?

-- Bhaskar

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 15:54 -0500, Cameron Schlehuber wrote:
> All patches and version updates to VistA in VA are handled via KIDS
> (or at 
> least they're supposed to!)  One of the capabilities KIDS offers is to
> lock 
> out users of selected options related to the code being changed.
> Other 
> users then can continue their merry way during what in some cases may
> be 
> lengthy installation processes.  Rather than VistA being like a car
> (a 
> system), it's more like a fleet (a system of systems), where we even
> have 
> the equivalent of floating dry-docks to do repairs while engaged in
> active 
> maneuvers.



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