Deadlock situation

[GCC Consulting]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-
> bounces+gccconsulting=comcast.net at lists.celestial.com [mailto:filepro-
> list-bounces+gccconsulting=comcast.net at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf
> Of Cesar Baquerizo
> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 7:30 AM
> To: Brian K. White
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: Deadlock situation
> 
> 
> 
> Brian K. White wrote:
> > Assuming this is code that was working before migrating to OSR6,
> It was - for about 20 years!
> > Presumably none of your filepro binaries are so old as to be xenix
> binaries, but,
> I'm on filepro version 4.5
> > just on general principle, have you installed MP3 ?
> >
> Yes
> > For this box that's already installed with osr6, try mp3, try the
> good filepro processing changes suggested already, and merely not
> install any _more_ osr6 boxes, even after you fix this one (since I'm
> sure it will work eventually, osr6 is not a completely broken system).
> Good luck
> >
> Thanks.  Agree with just about :) everything you say.  It is definitely
> an OS issue, unfortunately, I have to figure it out now.
> 
> I understand what causes a deadlock (thanks to all for the
> explanation),
> but given that there are no other users logged on or any other filepro
> processes running, I don't understand what is really happening here.
> The files, records, etc., are not/should not be in use by anything
> else.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 

Per chance, is the an auto processing table also running that might be doing
some "funky" processing like trying to write to a record that has been
looked up from that processing table?


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting
rkreiss at gccconsulting.net