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.