mumps.lock()

Increments the lock count for a MUMPS global. Note that MUMPS locks are advisory, meaning that MUMPS will not enforce locking automatically. It is the responsibility of your application code to check for and honor any outstanding locks before setting a MUMPS global.

Arguments

Argument	Data Type	Required	Default	Description
globalName	string	Yes	-	The name of the global to lock
subscripts	array	Yes	-	An array of subscripts
timeout	numeric	No	0	Number of seconds after which the lock attempt will fail

Return Value

mumps.lock() returns true if the lock was successfully acquired.

Example

CFML

<cfset mumps = createObject("component", "lib.cfmumps.mumps").open()>
<!--- lock ^patients("WILLIS, JOHN","DOB") --->
<cfif mumps.lock("patients", ["WILLIS, JOHN", "DOB"])>
<cfset mumps.set("patients", ["WILLIS, JOHN", "DOB"], "12/1/1980")>
<cfset mumps.unlock("patients", ["WILLIS, JOHN", "DOB"])>
<cfelse>
<p>Lock failed.</p>
</cfif>
<cfset mumps.close()>