Mike Ayers writes: > > BTW, it is my current suspicion that the failure > occured immediately after CVS let go of the data - during the physical > write to disk. Does anyone know if CVS verify its writes?
No, it assumes the system actually works. With a real operating system, verifying writes is nearly impossible: rereading the file would likely get the results from a cache, not directly from the disk, and most real OSes don't have any kind of user-level write verification (it's taken care of at the system level). Even if you could do write verification, it would be so slow that I doubt anyone would ever do it. After all, an unreliable system isn't much good for anything, let alone CVS. -Larry Jones My "C-" firmly establishes me on the cutting edge of the avant-garde. -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
