Chris BeHanna wrote: > Could the execution of scripts listed in the loginfo file > (in our case, the mailing of diffs), be made asynchronous? > > E.g., can the script be exec'd in the background, so that the > foreground process can exit? As it stands, the client blocks until > the server is done, and the server is blocking until the loginfo > script is done. In turn, that is blocking on mail delivery. > > I can work around it by making my script do its mailing > asynchronously, but someone else could easily run into this by > doing some other long-lived task out of loginfo. Not really, since most script failures are supposed to cause CVS to abort. Running long-running processes should be done in the background within your script, as the CVS manual states. Please send further inquiries of this sort to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Derek _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
