> No, I remember this from before IB 6 even... It's not blocking it's own
> stuff, but others as well.
>
> Or should I say, "supposedly blocking"

Exactly the same discussion took place five years and one month ago,
and the result of testing I made against InterBase 5 was the same
as with FB1.5.2 (i.e. no blocking observed).
As far as I remember, local protocol was new in InterBase 4,
so perhaps there were problems ?

:-)
Ivan