>A minimal requirement for their integrity is that two dispatchables not access >>one of them concurrently.
Absolutely. > we are dealing here with well understood risks that are entirely avoidable > and that there is thus no excuse for incurring them At a higher level no one has mentioned the risk of using an undocumented interface to do something for which documented services are available. Bob Shannon Rocket Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN