From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 4 23:44:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA26084 for current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:44:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA26065 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:44:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA01487; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 12:58:29 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 12:58:29 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199609041858.MAA01487@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: Terry Lambert Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Latest Current build failure In-Reply-To: <199609041852.LAA07039@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199609041739.LAA00876@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199609041852.LAA07039@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert writes: > > [ One more time... ] > > > This assumes that the writer lock is held over the build process; if it > > > were a nightly build run by cron on another box, then it would work as > > > well as the engineer's personal box. > > > > Writer lock won't solve any problems experienced in FreeBSD. It's been > > discussed to death. It's a solution waiting for a problem that doesn't > > exist. The problem doesn't exist in FreeBSD. Quit wasting everyones > > time and mailboxes with your solution to a non-existant problem. > > It solves a problem in the suggested replacement for the existing system. No, it doesn't. As has been discussed to death in the past, it solves *NO* problems in the past or present that can be solved. The *problem* is a human problem that can't be solved adequately using a computer. It needs human intervention (ala. Jordan's cookies). No 'locking' protocol within CVS will solve the problem, as the problem exists outside the scope of the version control software. 'Nuff said, you can continue to waste both my time and others, but it will be ignored. Nate