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Re: cvs server: waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/src/src/gdb
- To: eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il
- Subject: Re: cvs server: waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/src/src/gdb
- From: jlarmour at redhat dot com (Jonathan Larmour)
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 13:45:05 +0100
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Newsgroups: cygnus.gdb
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
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
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