Derek Price writes: > > Actually, though atomicity and locking are disjoint concepts, it sure > looks like import is skipping directory locks. Please see my previous post.
Our posts crossed in the e-mail. I'm simply astounded -- if anyone else had said it, I don't think I would have believed it. I can't believe no one has ever reported it before. > But since import is still using the old RCS-style file locks via > RCS_checkin, I would think corruption would still be avoided, but now > that I am looking closer, maybe add_rcs_file in import.c isn't even > using those? Regardless, my suggestion in the previous post on fixing > the problem should still apply. It's also possible that the RCS-style locks don't work correctly on their NFS-mounted file system. -Larry Jones What this games needs are negotiated settlements. -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Bug-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs
