[cvsnt] Re: unlocking unkown user locks

[Tony Hoyle]

Glen Starrett wrote:

> Trying to summarize what I saw here today.  Is this true:
>
> --Lock server is installed / service set to automatic with server 
> components
> --Lock Server is not enabled automatically
> --To enable {instructions in prev message}
> --Lock server purpose is to ensure dangling locks are cleaned up
>
> Does it do anything more than that?  Is there other relevant things to the
> lock server?  I didn't see a lot on it in the docs, but then I wasn't
> looking too closely either.

That's basically it.  In theory it can also be used for live monitoring 
of the repository, but nobody's ever written an app to do that.

Because of the difficulty of finding out the owner of a file in NT, you 
often the the 'waiting for unknown users lock' message with filesystem 
locks.  With lockserver you always know who has set the lock and from 
which machine.

Tony


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