Microsoft KB Archive/67485

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PRB: locking() Locks Only Twenty File Regions Simultaneously

Q67485

6.00 6.00a 6.00ax 7.00 | 1.00 1.50 MS-DOS | WINDOWS kbprg kbprb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The information in this article applies to: - The Microsoft C Run-time (CRT) included with: - Microsoft C for MS-DOS, versions 6.0, 6.0a, and 6.0ax - Microsoft C/C++ for MS-DOS, version 7.0 - Microsoft Visual C++ for Windows, versions 1.0 and 1.5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SYMPTOMS ======== The locking() function fails to lock a region of a file when only twenty locks are already in place. CAUSE ===== The locking() function exhausted the available file handles provided by the MS-DOS SHARE utility. By default, SHARE provides twenty file handles. RESOLUTION ========== Modify the SHARE command line to specify the /L parameter and a larger number of file handles. For example, to support locking up to fifty file regions simultaneously, modify the SHARE command line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file as follows: SHARE /L:50 Additional reference words: 1.00 1.50 6.00 6.00a 6.00ax 7.00 KBCategory: kbprg kbprb KBSubcategory: CRTIss

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