Why locking() May Allow Only Twenty Regions to Be Locked

ID Number: Q67485

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MS-DOS

Summary:

The DOS SHARE.EXE command installs file sharing and locking capability

within the DOS environment. If SHARE is executed without any

parameters, the default number of simultaneous file locks is 20.

Subsequently, the C locking() function will allow only twenty regions

to be locked at the same time. To change from the default, SHARE

should be installed with the following parameter (where n is the

number of simultaneous regions that can be locked):

SHARE /L:n