From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 18 12:50:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA14391 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 12:50:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (root@smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA14336 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 12:50:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA21484; Mon, 18 May 1998 11:52:45 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd021438; Mon May 18 11:52:43 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA09616; Mon, 18 May 1998 11:52:29 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199805181852.LAA09616@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: nfs exported FreeBSD cvs repository, mounted on client, update problems To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 18:52:29 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, jdp@polstra.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199805180342.VAA22777@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at May 17, 98 09:42:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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