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From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net>
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In-Reply-To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
       "Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/cvs lock.c" (May 16, 12:58pm)
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/cvs lock.c
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> > nate        95/05/16 10:46:04
> > 
> >   Modified:    gnu/usr.bin/cvs/cvs  lock.c
> >   Log:
> >   date: 1995/05/08 18:27:27;  author: jtc;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -2
> >   * lock.c (write_lock): Missed one instance where rmdir(tmp) should
> >     have been changed to clear_lock().
> >   
> >   Submitted by:	jtc@cygnus.com
> 
> Would this explain my very rarely occuring, but also very annoying, failures
> during a cvs update to remove the lock file with a big complaint and
> an exit(1) from cvs?

I don't know.  Are you running the speedup version?  If so, it's
possible that this could be the cause.  There are also problems in the
current code (in all public versions) which causse it to not clean up
locks when it is interrupted for whatever reasons.


Nate