Re: locked file unlocked by any user

[MURVAI-BUZOGANY Laszlo]

Hi!

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 04:14:19PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote:
> > So, the problem is, that any file, locked by any ordinary user, may be
> > unlocked by any - same or other - user, and then locked again with his own
> > lock. There is an error message when an other user wants to lock an already
> > locked file, or unlocks a file that is not locked. But, when wanting to
> > unlock a file locked by anyone, it gets unlocked immediately, without any
> > warning or error.
> 
> Note that that only happens if you specify a particular revision to
> unlock; if you just use -u with no revision, you get a message telling
> you that you don't have the file locked.  In this situation, RCS would

No. That's the point. As a user, I may issue a:
cvs admin -u <file>
and it gets unlocked. That's the thing I don't understand.

> tell you that the file is locked by someone else and ask you if you want
> to break the lock or not.  Unfortunately, that is not compatible with
> CVS's client/server operation since only the server knows about locks
> and only the client is able to communicate with the user.

But it sounds a little bit hazardous, since you aquire a lock on a file in
the repository, and it requires a server operation. The client is only an
intermediate partner between you and the server, IMHO.

Thanks for the prompt help :)

                Laszlo
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Murvai-Buzogány László                  Laszlo.Murvai-Buzogany@gt-systems.hu