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I still get a dangling lock once in a while, forcing me to bounce the server to make it go away. I can't seem to figure out the conditions to reproduce it though... Khaled "John Hall" <john.hall at optionexist.co.uk> wrote in message news:mailman.1037029448.4102.cvsnt at cvsnt.org... Tony Hoyle <tmh at nodomain.org> wrote: > > For what is it used? > > If we don't use reserved edits or locking files etc, do we still > > need it? > It handles the live locks (that stop two people trying to commit at > the same time). > > I wrote it to get around the 'waiting for unknown users lock' error > which can happen with the old FS locks. It's also a lot safer on > remote repositories, because you're not relying on the network > filesystem synchronising its locking correctly. As a side effect it > seems to be a bit faster. If I start to use the LockServer, will the server still work with older clients or do I need to upgrade all the clients to the latest version. Some people here are still using ntserver, and it is a bit of a pain to have to go around and change everyone's cvsroot to use sspi (even with the handy fixcvs.pl). Cheers, John