Re: Rename atomicity

[Derek R. Price]

Assar Westerlund wrote:

> "Derek R. Price" <dprice@collab.net> writes:
> > 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.

Could you resubmit it to bug-cvs@gnu.org?  This releases it under the GPL.
:)  Then I'll take a look.  I'm not promising anything, but if you simply
fixed '-n' to make the server read only, I can't think of an offhand reason
to object.  If you did more than this, please either back the rest out or
provide me with a good argument for the other bits before I spend time trying
to decipher source code.

Can anyone else think of a reason to object to this?

Derek

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