[cvsnt] CVSNT 2.0.6 fails in a batch file
John Peacock
jpeacock at rowman.com
Tue Jul 22 20:10:33 BST 2003
Alexandre Augusto Drummond Barroso wrote:
> It seems CMD is spawning processes concurrently so the first process locks the file while the following processes fail.
> So you may use "start /w" before each command to make CMD wait the process termination before interpreting next command line.:
This *may* solve the problem, but then again it may not. NTFS is very lazy
about releasing filesystem locks (it's a "performance" hack) and it isn't too
hard to create a race condition where supposedly atomic changes are blocked
because the previous process' locks are not yet released.
John
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