[cvsnt] Re: Error on tag

[Tony Hoyle]

Harrison, Andrew wrote:

> Any idea what the problem could have been?
> 
> We're running 2.0.41 on Win2K.

I'd suspect AV holding the file open but in general you'd see it a lot 
more often in that case.

When you close a file Windows doesn't do it immediately, it waits for a 
fraction before doing it.  This presents a problem for programs like CVS 
which rely heavily on the filesystem. The code is structured to avoid 
this problem and it's extremely rare to trigger it nowadays.

I can only guess that in this case something managed to keep the file 
open just fractionally too long (possibly memory pressure - 2.0.41 eats 
memory on large file operations).

Tony