Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 18:52:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, jdp@polstra.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfs exported FreeBSD cvs repository, mounted on client, update problems Message-ID: <199805181852.LAA09616@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199805180342.VAA22777@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at May 17, 98 09:42:24 pm
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> However, as time and millions of commits have proven, not 'global' > locking the tree down *rarely* (< .001%) causes any problems. Terry > will pipe up now and try to get us to optimize the rare case, but as any > good engineer nows that penalizes the standard case for the rare case is > always a bad idea. So are trees that don't build because the people checking code in can't be trusted to do the requisite test compiled before typing "cvs commit". If you have a situation where an unenforced protocol is being violated, how do you propose to stop the violations without enforcement? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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