[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> "Limited resources"??? Disk space is practically free these days!
> Last week's local ads had a 27GB disk for $150; that's about $5 per
> gigabyte.
You're assuming that every piece of hardware has the capability of
connecting an IDE disk. There's a whole world out there beyond the
bounds of desktop Intel PCs, and lots of them don't have *any* spinning
media *at all* (or capability to attach spinning media), much less
multiple GBs. Don't assume that the economics of mass market PCs can be
extrapolated to the entire realm of computer hardware.
Of course there are many other ways to setup your development
environment to get around the problem - beyond NFS-mounting extra disk
from somewhere else, an even better idea would be to use
cross-development tools running on a standard workstation to do all
editing/building, and use the embedded device only for
(remotely-controlled) debugging, thus removing the need to have any
source whatsoever on the target system. But that wasn't what the
original poster asked about, they asked how to enable different users to
run cvs commands in the same work directory. (BTW, that *does* have uses
- as I mentioned in my previous mail, we used to use cvs-ediff in emacs
to review other developers' changes as part of the full pre-commit peer
review process; being able to do the diff directly in the other person's
work directory saved *a lot* of time).
