I second David's idea of using a READU also you can return exactly which port/pid has the lock set, which might be helpful as well if the phantom *shouldn't* be running!
I'd go a set further and have the phantom actually timestamp when it set the READU lock. _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users