>Is there a way to deted wheather or not a record is locked without actually changing it's status?
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>Using RLock() does not tell me what the status was prior to calling it.

You can infer it though.
If it succeeds, the record was unlocked - or you had it locked.
If it fails, it was already locked.

Checking for a lock on its own is not a useful function.
In the microsecond or so it takes to go to your next line of code, someone could lock the record.