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Re: Please help with CVS admin -l


From: Jim Hyslop
Subject: Re: Please help with CVS admin -l
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:02:12 -0400
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Wiest, Damian wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> I'm replying to you privately since I don't know if the list will benefit
> from the question.  Please feel free to reply to the list if you think it's
> appropriate.
I do, so I'm cc'ing the list with my answer.

>>Normally, CVS cleans up after itself, but if the program 
>>crashes then the locks will be left behind.
> 
> 
> Why are the lock files left behind versus removed by a signal handler?  Is
> it to allow for a user to perform recovery operations?

No, nothing like that. CVS never deliberately leaves lock files behind.
I'm thinking about occasions (hopefully rare ones) where the CVS
executable core dumps, or otherwise aborts so hard that signal handlers
don't get called.

- --
Jim Hyslop
Better software. Simply.
Dreampossible <http://www.dreampossible.ca>
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