info-cvs
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

"Stale" CVS locks


From: Reinstein, Shlomo
Subject: "Stale" CVS locks
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:00:42 +0300

Hi,

It happens many times that CVS users execute some CVS command (e.g., cvs
log), and then, before it finished executing, they abort the command using
Ctrl+Break or a similar manner. The outcome of this is that the read locks
generated by CVS remain in place, and prevent other users later from
checking-out modules (or performing other CVS operations on these modules
that contain the read locks).

I'd like to know, is there a common way of handling these problems? If not,
can you recommend us how to deal with this? If don't know if it matters for
this problem, but we're using CVS (the same repository) from both Windows
and Linux, and we're not using the client/server model of CVS (and we can't
start using this model now). The Ctrl+Break case may perhaps be solved by
capturing those keystrokes, but there may be other reasons for stale CVS
locks such as when a machine crashes, so I think this problem should be
solved more generally.

Shlomo




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]