Re: Hung CVS server processes

[Larry Jones]

Dan Peterson writes:
> 
> Well, I may have spoke a little too soon.  I was correct in saying the
> connection is still active... and I THINK I was correct in saying there
> was no activity (other than keepalive packets) for at least 22 hours.
> But right after I killed the "snoop" process 24 more packets were suddenly
> captured.  At least some of these packets contain CVS protocol commands.

That sounds like someone started a commit, the editor came up for the
log message, and the person forgot about it until the next day when they
finally saved the log message and let the commit complete.

> Does the CVS pserver protocol allow a client to stay connected after
> completing a particular command?  And subsequently be able to execute
> multiple commands on the same connection?

Yes, although it isn't usually done (the only time the standard client
runs multiple commands on one connection is when doing an update with
patches -- if any of the patches fail, it then does an update without
patches to fetch the whole file), so it's not well tested.

-Larry Jones

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