Is HDB locking safe?

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to jr at oglvee.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg):
>HDB assumes that if the pid recorded in the lock file no longer
>corresponds to an active process, the lock file is defunct and
>can safely be removed.  I can't for the life of me figure out a
>safe way of doing this.

There isn't one.  Sorry.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT     <chip at tct.uucp>, <uunet!ateng!tct!chip>