Change wait time for “File in use” errors
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WSupported on Windows
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NSupported in Synergy .NET
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To accommodate system events that may periodically access your files (such as virus scanners), OPEN, DELET, and RENAM will attempt to retry file access for up to 5 seconds before reporting that a file is in use. The RETRYTIME environment variable changes the amount of time they will retry.
Value
The number of 1/10ths of a second to retry. The default is 50 (which is 5 seconds).
Discussion
Because a virus scanner can take several seconds to scan a file, which sometimes causes a “File in use by another user” error ($ERR_FINUSE), the OPEN statement and the DELET and RENAM routines will by default retry for up to 5 seconds (50 one-tenth-of-a-second retries) before reporting that a file is in use. You can use RETRYTIME to lower the wait time if the operations are taking too long or raise it if you’re still getting unexplained $ERR_FINUSE errors.
Setting location
The environment or the [synergy], [dbr], or [myprog] section of synergy.ini (where myprog is any .dbr file).
Used by
Runtime, linker, librarian
Examples
The following example reduces the retry time to 1 second:
set RETRYTIME=10
