VMS Help System Services, $DEQ  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    Dequeues (unlocks) granted locks; dequeues the sublocks of a
    lock; or cancels an ungranted lock request. The calling process
    must have previously acquired the lock or queued the lock request
    by calling the Enqueue Lock Request ($ENQ) service.

    On Alpha systems, this service accepts 64-bit addresses.

    Format

      SYS$DEQ  [lkid] ,[valblk] ,[acmode] ,[flags]

    C Prototype

      int sys$deq  (unsigned int lkid, void *valblk, unsigned int

                   acmode, unsigned int flags);

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