Orphan control blocks

2017-06-21 Thread John Ganci
Resend: My original reply had subject line "Re: Orphan control blocks". Resending with original subject line. Sorry about that. This *may* be the classical problem described in Principles of Operation, SA22-7832-10. Look at the description of COMPARE AND SWAP and COMPARE DOUBL

Re: Orphan control blocks

2017-06-21 Thread John Ganci
This *may* be the classical problem described in Principles of Operation, SA22-7832-10. Look at the description of COMPARE AND SWAP and COMPARE DOUBLE AND SWAP beginning on page 7-127. In particular, Note 4 in the Programming Notes on page 7-128 -- 7-129. Finally, Appendix A has sample code

Re: Orphan control blocks

2017-06-19 Thread Greg Dyck
On 6/19/2017 11:51 AM, Donald Likens wrote: Does anyone see any problems with the following code... Updating free space pointer. To fully understand the possibilities for error you would need to show both sides of the processing, allocation and freeing. In cases like this there is almost

Orphan control blocks

2017-06-19 Thread Donald Likens
to me but I have one user that has problems with orphan control blocks once in a while and would like your thoughts. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu