Your application cannot be multi-threaded but the OS is.  A library could
have a file open at the same time your app is running.  There are also hacks
and callback function (i.e for reading the serial port).


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Clabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 2:26 PM
Subject: Database open by multiple applications?


> Can a database be open by multiple applications?
>
> I noticed that DmOpenDatabaseInfo has a field called openCountP that is
> suppose to be the number of applications that have the specified database
> open.
> But I don't understand how that can be since the palm OS does not support
> multiple applications running at once.  How do multiple application have a
> database open at the same time if they can't run at the same time?  Can
> anyone shed light on this for me?
>
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> -Ron
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