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From: Nate Williams  <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@freefall.freebsd.org>
Cc: bugs@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: cvs masks signals while waiting for locks
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> I deadlocked cvs by doing `cvs commit Makefile' and then trying to
> do `cvs diff -r 1.x Makefile' in a subprocess.  The subprocess
> ignored SIGINT, SIGHUP and SIGTERM.

Umm, the subprocess should print out advisory messages stating that it's
waiting for the lock to be freed on the directory when you do this, not
lock up.  (Arguably, the diff should still finish since the lock doesn't
affect it).


Nate