NotesInitExtended Error Code 8960

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I’m developing an application that retrieves database content from a Domino server (V8.0.2).

All calls made to the Notes API are isolated into a child process. I have several child processes running at the same time. Therefore, each child process must initialize the Notes API. I make sure it’s not done at the same time with a global lock mechanism (I had problems with that previously, but it’s fixed now).

Once in a while, in one of my child processes, I get the error code 8960 upon calling NotesInitExtended. The include file globerr.h tells me that there isn’t any predefined error message associated to this error code. It’s in this package :

#define PKG_OS2_LANMAN 0x2300 /* + status - 0x0834=2100 (LANMAN base) */

  1. I don’t think it is an error mask related issue. Applying the ERR() mask on the error code still returns 8960 (of course).

  2. It is intermittent, that is, sometimes everything works fine without any error.

  3. I suspect that initializing the Notes API several times (even though in different processes and synchronized) could be the source of my problems.

  4. I’ve not tried calling OSLoadString yet, since I’m not able to reproduce the problem right now.

  5. Each process has its own copy of the user.id and notes.ini files.

  6. I also have the problem on Windows Server 2003 (Client).

Any ideas?