Re: CVS pids and the pids of its kids

[Laird Nelson]

----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Siegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Why not make the original cvs (pid 1000 in my example) export the
> temp-dir name into an environment variable?  The variable would
> be scoped correctly, by definition.  And there would be no
> reliance on PIDs.

I'd like that.  One of my design goals however is to avoid patching cvs.
So if and when cvs gets an official release where that behavior is
incorporated, I'll cheer loudly.

Of course if cvs moves to a different tempdir algorithm, as you note,
then this export becomes rather pointless.

All of this, of course, is to let the various *info scripts communicate
with each other; this problem would go away with a completely revised
trigger mechanism.

Cheers,
Laird