[Cvsnt] Shadow folder in cvs

[John Peacock]

Brian Smith wrote:
> Arvind Raman wrote:
>
>> Executable (date; cat; (sleep 2; cd /c/temp;cvs -q
>> update -d) &) >>
>> :local:c:/cvsrepository/CVSROOT/updatelog 2>&1  not
>> found
>
>
> CVS seems to be interpreting your whole line as the name of the program
> that it should be running. So, I recommend that you try to put the
> commands in a batch file and run the batch file during commit instead,
> like the other user suggested.

Nope.  Won't work.  Of those commands, only date and cvs exist on NT.  Putting
them into a batch file has no more effect; the line listed above *only* works
under *nix.

>
> I'm curious about this discussion of background processes. What does the
> idea of background process have to do with this problem?

The '&' character on *nix systems will create a background shell process that
will do the autoupdate after sleeping for 2 seconds.  The sleep is vital because
the original cvs process has a lock on the file which is not released until the
commit is completed.  NT does not have a comparable construct.

John


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