Re: CVS commit failure and lock files (under windows with cygwin)

[Larry Jones]

Seth Copen Goldstein writes:
> 
> cvs [commit aborted]: error writing to lock file $repository/,$file,
> 
> where $repository is the path to the repository and $file is the file I am 
> trying to commit.
> 
> I have permissions in $repository and can touch ,file, there.  But cvs 
> fails.  ANy suggestions?

If you're using a network filesystem (e.g., a Windows share, AFS, NFS,
Samba, etc.) to access the repository, that is almost certainly the
source of the problem.  Use client/server CVS with the repository
locally mounted on the server instead.  If not, you either have a
hardware problem or you've found a bug in Cygwin.

-Larry Jones

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