RE: Please help with CVS admin -l

[Farshad Mahjoubi]

This what has just happned to me and this AM when I try to ran cvs admin -l
with no space .... I had to go in and remove a lock and which it was
leftover. I could not tag anything in the project.


<address@hidden: ~> cvs -qn admin -lVSM_1_3_0_Branch
OpsLogic/CMEx-Historical-Plotting
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)



-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden
[mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of
Jim Hyslop
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 6:02 PM
To: Wiest, Damian
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Please help with CVS admin -l

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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
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