Re: Idea for reducing disk IO on tagging operations

[Jim Hyslop]

Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>   2) I could do with a better under standing of the directory locks;
>   pointers? I've read the top of lock.c but it still doesn't tell me
>   enough; for example there seem to be multiple lock files used - but
>   then surely the creation of them isn't atomic? Or is there one lock
>   file used for both reading and writing?
The locking process is explained in the manual, at 
https://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.19/cvs_2.html#SEC17

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Jim