Arguments

 

lock-id

   OpenVMS usage identifier
   type          longword (unsigned)
   access        write only
   mechanism     by reference
   Identifier of the newly created lock. The lock-id argument is the
   address of an unsigned longword containing the lock identifier.
   You must use lock-id when getting or freeing the lock.
 

lock-name

   OpenVMS usage char_string
   type          character string
   access        read only
   mechanism     by descriptor
   Name of the lock. The lock-name argument is the address of a
   descriptor pointing to a character string containing the name.
   The name of the lock is entirely arbitrary. If you do not specify
   this argument, or if you specify 0, an unnamed lock is created.
   An arbitrary number of unnamed locks can be created by a given
   application.