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On Mon, 04 Nov 2002 16:28:43 +0100, Alberto Barbati wrote: > What is a LockServer? I guess it is related with that big "Start" button > under the label "CVS Locking service" on the new CVS panel. I feel the > strong urge to enable it ;-) Is there something important I should now > before I do that? > It maintains a list of live locks on the repository. The advantage is that if an instance of cvs crashes, all its locks disappear automatically... it's also a lot faster, since it doesn't have to recurse through the filesystem to set locks (also, you can have multiple read locks on the same directory which is handy if there's a lot of load). To enable it just comment out any LockDir line in the CVSROOT/config and add LockServer=localhost. It's actually possible to write a program tha monitors changes to the repository in real time using this, but nobody's done it yet. Tony