[cvsnt] Re: Mixing :local: and client/server protocols (was: When you gotta....)

[Oliver Giesen]

Friedrich Niederreiter wrote:

> Just for clarification (and verification from the
> experts)!
> It is correct (I hope!), to do cvs updates via a
> :local: connection as the update command only modifies
> sandbox files!?! We do such an update in a postcommit
> script to publish html files to our web server. The
> :local: "guy" is only reading, so a corruption cannot
> happen...

IIRC even read-only operations impose directory locks in order to make 
sure the data they're getting is consistent, so even then is there a 
risk of conflicting locks. Better not mix them at all.

Cheers,

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Oliver
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