On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 11:31:21AM -0400, Larry Jones wrote:
> Louis-David Mitterrand writes:
> >
> > to provide anonymous access to the repository and it seems to work
> > fine except that CVS insists on creating locks inside the modules
> > directory despite the fact that access is read-only:
>
> Locks are important even for read-only operations -- you don't want to
> try to read a file while someone else is in the middle of writing it!
On second thought, why would a reader need to _acquire_ any locks on
such partly-written files? Simply acknowledging locks created by writers
is enough to avoid reading partly-created files; this doesn't need write
access, or am I (still) missing something?
Thanks
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Louis-David Mitterrand - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.apartia.fr
