Re: Rename atomicity

[Assar Westerlund]

"Derek R. Price" <dprice@collab.net> writes:
> This is already the case.  Look up the "config" admin file or its
> "LockDir" option in the manual.

Ok, good.

> I believe the BSD people have a patch that makes the server not create
> locks, but I'd say that if it doesn't work already, maybe something like
> '-n' passed in as a server option ('cvs -n pserver ...' in inetd.conf)
> should exhibit this behavior rather than any special casing.  Of course
> I may not have given this enough consideration.

Yes, this is similar (or almost identical) to the patch that I sent in
earlier.  Since this is someting lots of people find useful, I do
think it would be convenient to have it in the canonical version of
cvs.

> By the way, patches usually do better submitted to bug-cvs@gnu.org,
> unless you were still looking for community and not developer feedback.

I was looking for feedback.  The patch is rather trivial but there has
been strong opinions for not including it previously and that's why I
wanted to ask.

/assar