RE: CVS locks

["Doug Olson" <dlolson@lbl.gov>]

I think if you use /opt/rhic/bin/cvs on starsu00 you
won't have this problem.
Doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Nordberg [mailto:HNordberg@lbl.gov]
> Sent: Friday, June 12, 1998 4:48 PM
> To: Grand Challenge
> Subject: CVS locks
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Trying to learn CVS, I ran into the following problem:
> 
> when I use "cvs watch" from starsu00, CVS doesn't release the locks
> it obtains during execution of the command. During execution it creates
> 
> drwxrwxr-x 2 nordberg 2048 Jun 12 19:40 #cvs.lock/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 nordberg  0 Jun 12 19:40 #cvs.wfl.starsu00.1999
> 
> but it only deletes the latter upon completion.
> 
> This doesn't happen when the same command(s) are run from rcf.rhic.
> Then both locks are properly removed.
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> My temporary solution is a script that removes the locks by brute force.
>  - Henrik 
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