Re: Question about commits in CVSROOT and running loginfo scripts

[Larry Jones]

Noel Yap writes:
> 
> If you need to use CVS commands within
> loginfo, try either using RCS commands, or create a
> temporary module who's archive files are symlinked to
> the real module's archive files.  Do not fork unless
> you're positive race conditions won't affect you.

In most cases, you can use CVS commands with the global -n option (no
execute) to ignore locks.  That's a much better method than either of
the above. 

-Larry Jones

Oh, now don't YOU start on me. -- Calvin