Deadlock situation

[Nancy Palmquist]

Cesar Baquerizo wrote:
> Does anyone have any insight at to what causes this error.  I initially 
> thought it was a corrupted file, so I rebuilt the index (D).  When that 
> did not work, I created a new index(F), changed the processing and got 
> the same error.
> 
> The offending line is:
> 
>  lookup open = mropenitems  k=ke   i=F -nx
> 
> 
> *** A System Error Has Occurred ***
> 
> Fatal error
> /hd1/appl/filepro/mropenitems/index.F: Deadlock situation detected/avoided
> 
Cesar,


The simplest idea is this:

A tries to lock B
B tries to lock A

This is what is happening.  Are you doing a lookup to the "current" file and 
trying to see the current record?

Nancy


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