hello all:

  i have a question on semaphores - are semaphores automatically freed up
when an application terminates ? what if the app is terminated via power
loss ???

  I want to use semaphores to keep track of who is in my application in a
non-client server dbisam environment.

  My idea is to grab the first available semaphore - put it in a table
along with the ip address(s) of the computer and the computer name. the
table is needed to store the user computer information.

thanks

Neil

Neil,

<< i have a question on semaphores - are semaphores automatically freed up
when an application terminates ? >>

They aren't in 1.x or 2.x, and possibly 3.x also, but they are in 4.x.

<< what if the app is terminated via power loss ??? >>

No, in such a case they are handled just like any other locks - it is up to
the file server OS to free them because the process is now gone.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com