Thanks! Your pairing map makes things alot clearer.
Roger Chaplin wrote:
> Let's be careful with terminology. This is all confusing enough for
> newbies as it is, without muddying the waters all the more by misusing
> terms. "Lock" and "release" should not be paired.
>
> DmGetRecord doesn't lock a handle; it simply marks a database record
> busy, and returns the handle. To use the handle, you must lock it with
> MemHandleLock.
>
> In other words, to follow your suggestion of "pairing" functions:
> allocate <-> free (MemHandleNew <-> MemHandleFree)
> lock <-> unlock (MemHandleLock <-> MemHandleUnlock)
> busy <-> release (DmGetRecord <-> DmReleaseRecord)
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