From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jlarmour@redhat.com (Jonathan Larmour) To: eliz@is.elta.co.il Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: cvs server: waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/src/src/gdb Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 05:45:00 -0000 Message-id: <200105031245.f43Cj5n15562@localhost.localdomain> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-05/msg00047.html In article < Pine.SUN.3.91.1010503140324.613J-100000@is > you write: >Is there any reasonable way to prevent anoncvs from locking the >repository for prolonged periods of time? I've just committed a small >change, and now I'm sitting before the terminal for 30 minutes staring at >``waiting for anoncvs's lock'' messages. And it's not over yet. > >This is ridiculous: anoncvs access to the GDB sources should not punish >the developers so much! > >Is this a CVS limitation, or can something be done? It was a stale lock. The cvs server instance that created it must have crashed. I've deleted it so it should work now. Jifl -- Red Hat, Rustat House, Clifton Road, Cambridge, UK. Tel: +44 (1223) 271062 Maybe this world is another planet's Hell -Aldous Huxley || Opinions==mine