Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] FEATURE PLANS: revlib locking

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Aaron Bentley <address@hidden>

    > Tom Lord wrote:
    > > Commands which use a revision library tree should acquire an
    > > (ordinary, flock) read lock on a file in that tree.

    > > Commands which delete revision library trees should acquire
    > > a write lock on that same file.

    > Are flocks supported by network filesystems like NFS and SAMBA?

In general you can wind up on filesystems that don't.   I'm not too
worried about that (the feature can be made optional, per-library).


-t