RE: cvs edit -c locked checkout problem

[Krishnamoorthy, Balaji]

Could you please suggest where I can find the patch to make one user unable to 
unlock the lock of the other user . Is it a good idea to put such patches ? 
what would be the implications if I would put in that .

Thanks
bala

Balaji Krishnamoorthy
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert J. Clark [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 7:36 PM
To: address@hidden
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: cvs edit -c locked checkout problem


On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:44:22 -0400
"Krishnamoorthy, Balaji" <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>     I have a CVS server setup in the Unix , all the users are defined
>     in the passwd file , of the repository . The CVSROOT is as 
>     ":cvspserver:address@hidden:/local/apps/cvs/sample
>     apprepository" .And these repositories are defined in cvsstart
>     file .
> 
> The problem is 
> cvs edit -c for a locked checkout does not work. Any other user can
> unlock the file . 
> 
> Could anyone please suggest a workaround .

Don't use CVS? The "C" in CVS stands for "Concurrent". This means that
anyone can edit any file at any time. If you need true locking, then you
will have to use one of the hacks floating around to add this to CVS or
live with the fact that CVS does not work that way.

- Rob


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