Re: Clarifications: CVS Import Bug - Please Respond

[Derek Price]

Larry Jones wrote:

>As far as I remember, we don't query the lock directory's existence, we
>just try to create it and see whether it fails or not.  
>

True.

>Since directory
>creation is supposed to be atomic, even under NFS, I would argue that
>any NFS implementation that returns based on a cache rather than waiting
>for the server response is just plain broken.
>  
>

Possibly, but as far as I know it is a common problem.  Don't know why.

Derek

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