Re: cvs tag and #cvs.lock

[Derek Robert Price]

Paul Edwards wrote:

> "Larry Jones" <lawrence.jones@eds.com> wrote in message 
> news:mailman.5533.1051984031.21513.bug-cvs@gnu.org...
>  
>
> > Paul Edwards writes:
> >    
> >
> > > 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.
> >    
>
> 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.
>  

I like the "stop interrupting me" suggestion.

Patches enthusiastically accepted!

Derek

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