Lock waiting timeout in Progress 7

[progressproger]

The -lkwtmo client command line parameter seems to have been introduced in Progress 8.

Is there a way of using anything like that in Progress 7 (on HP-UX)? Maybe another approach? I need to make such a timeout much shorter.

Thanks a lot!

 

[GregTomkins]

Version 7 is dinosaurish even by my "what's all this talk about version 9, get off my lawn" standards. Anyway, maybe you could do something with EXCLUSIVE-LOCK NO-WAIT and a retry loop with a short 'UNIX sleep' in it? Sounds nasty though

 

[jdpjamesp]

Crikey! What on earth are you doing on version 7?! Have you some sort of death wish?!

 

[progressproger]

Version 7 is dinosaurish even by my "what's all this talk about version 9, get off my lawn" standards. Anyway, maybe you could do something with EXCLUSIVE-LOCK NO-WAIT and a retry loop with a short 'UNIX sleep' in it? Sounds nasty though

I am already proceeding this way. If it's impossible to shorten the locks timeout, what I'm doing is the only available approach.

 

[progressproger]

What on earth are you doing on version 7?!

I'm not the one who decides on a version, unfortunately. I'm working with what the company still has

 

[tamhas]

I'd be looking for a new company.