>Recently I have been getting deadlocks in my application.
>What causes a deadlock ?
>Can it be avoided ?
>How can it be resolved ?
>What causes the "File is in use by another user" to be generated ?
>I understand how a record can be in use by another user but why the file ???
Do you explicity issue lock(), rlock() or flock() in your programs?
Hilmar.
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