Re: cvs tag and #cvs.lock

Derek Robert Price <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.bugs
Organization Ximbiot <http://ximbiot.com>
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Paul Edwards wrote:

>"Larry Jones" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>  
>
>>Paul Edwards writes:
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>>
>>>On CVS 1.11.5 on Solaris someone did a "cvs tag" (not rtag)
>>>and then ctrl-c'd it, and it left a #cvs.lock in the repository.
>>>
>>>This is a local repository.
>>>
>>>Does CVS not handle this cleanly?
>>>      
>>>
>>It's supposed to -- it works for me.  All I can think of is that someone
>>did something more drastic than ctrl-c (like ctrl-\) or managed to do
>>ctrl-c a second time before CVS had finished cleaning up.
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>
>Multiple ctrl-c's are something that is often seen done by
>Unix types (although I don't know about this specific instance).
>Should a sig-ignore be done whenever the ctrl-c handler is
>invoked to handle "common user practice"?  Or a handler
>that says "stop interrupting me, I'm working as fast as I can
>on the original instruction"?
>
>BFN.  Paul.
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>

I like the "stop interrupting me" suggestion.

Patches enthusiastically accepted!

Derek

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