[cvsnt] Re: Benefits of CVSNT vs cvs (cyclic) 1.11.x???

[Ian Epperson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Hoyle [mailto:tmh at nodomain.org] 
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 12:50 PM
> To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Subject: [cvsnt] Re: Benefits of CVSNT vs cvs (cyclic) 1.11.x???
> 
> 
> Rick Silton wrote:
> > 7. Separate locking process (I'm not positive of the benefit.)
> 
> If the server crashes then you never get stray lock files, 
> which means you
> don't need to have an admin log into the server and clean up.
> 
> Tony

But doesn't a separate locking process also give the opportunity for finer
user controls.  IE, without the lock server, I can't give a user read-only
(no commit) access to a module as the process has to create, write, then
delete a lock file.