On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:33:05 +0100 "Mike Cowlishaw" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Curious .. I use mutex in Rexx (mostly to protect .ini file updates > in Windows and Linux, mostly Windows) and have had occasional > failures that appeared to be due to some kind of corruption. Could > this problem be related ... i.e., mutexes not working as expected? > If you mean by corruption that your ini file was corrupted then I would say this is related. At least when this is Linux. I cannot speak for Windows as I do not use Windows. Currently, if e.g. you call SysCreateMutexSem() from different scripts for the same semaphore then you would expect the second invocation of SysCreateMutexSem() to fail. But it doesn't. This could cause havoc to your inifile. -- Manfred ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Windows 8 Center In partnership with Sourceforge Your idea - your app - 30 days. Get started! http://windows8center.sourceforge.net/ what-html-developers-need-to-know-about-coding-windows-8-metro-style-apps/ _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
