In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/01/2006
   at 06:44 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>View this from the perspective of the initiator: RET=CHNG is
>available, yet the initiator never exploits it -- it can't by design
>objective. 

You're overlooking DYNALLOC.

>Likewise, if RET=CHNG were not available, you could equally well
>simply DEQ and re-ENQ  with EXCL scope.

That wouldn't have the same effect and would be, in general,
disastrous.

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     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
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