Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: CVS lock issue

Spiro Trikaliotis <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Feb 2018 10:58:31 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Thorsten,

* On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 08:40:03PM +0000 Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Spiro Trikaliotis dixit:
> 
> >No, unfortunately, that's not how CVS works. There is no wait for the
> >lock.
> 
> This is wrong, I’ve seen waits for locks, at least between two
> concurrent commit operations.

You're right, I was wrong. CVS waits for locks, but it this is not
always successfull, so it fails in some cases. Because it fails
sometimes, I said that it fails always, which is clearly wrong.

Best regards,
   Spiro.

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