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Re: Is there a routine to generate full-path names?

#2889
From: Brewski Rogers
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1990 21:33
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In article <130545@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
]Bruce, you should get a copy of the program ShowLocks, you would notice
]that after running your code that there were a bunch of filelocks 
]hanging around. The reason is that you don't ever "UnLock" anything
]that you "Lock". So in your code ...
]
]>    lock=ParentDir(lock);
]>    if (lock!=NULL) SeekRoot(lock);
]
]This has to be changed to something like :
]	newlock = ParentDir(oldlock);
]	UnLock(oldlock);
]	oldlock = newlock;
]	if (newlock != NULL) ...
]And somewhere near the end of this routine you should have a statement :
]>    lock=Lock(dirName,ACCESS_READ);
]	...
]	UnLock(lock);

oops!
you're right!
OKAY, fixing the original source I posted will be left as an exercise for
the reader...

]--Chuck McManis
]"If it didn't have bones in it, it wouldn't be crunchy now would it?!"
	^^^ time for a new one.

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From: rogers@iris.ucdavis.edu (Brewski Rogers)
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Subject: Re: Is there a routine to generate full-path names?
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Date: 22 Jan 90 21:33:32 GMT
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