Locked... or not?

Posted in 1997

Gary Vance — 16 Apr 1997 10:21:58 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Hello, I wonder if anybody can help me with this locking problem. I have a customer running C2000 phase 3 which in turn uses ISAM Ver.5.0. I'm developing a 'C' routine using ISAM Ver 6.11. The situation is this: One user amending a record in file X (in C2000) A 'C' program then tries to open file X to insert a record. The 'isopen' returns error code 113 (file exclusively locked). However a second user (also in C2000) can now insert a record. My question is why can two users within C2000 insert / amend different records in the same file, but my 'isopen' returns error code 113? Thanks in advance. Gary