[cvsnt] Re: intermittent "waiting for Unknown User's lock"

Khaled Agrama kagrama at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 4 19:47:38 BST 2002


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Thanks.  I'm about to upgrade to this to see if it solves the problem.  BTW,
what commands cause files/directories to lock?  Can an update or checkout
cause it to happen, or is it only commit, tag, etc?

Thanks,
Khaled.

"Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nothing-on.tv> wrote in message
news:3d6f4279.1282778109 at news.cvsnt.org...
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:54:52 -0700, "Khaled Agrama"
> <kagrama at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Also, in what situations would I get "unknown user" as opposed to a real
> >user name?
> >
> It's quite difficult to find out the owner of a file in NT (because
> files tend to get owned by your primary group rather than the user)
> and when cvs can't use that mechanism it falls back to 'Unknown'.
>
> 57h will support an alternative locking scheme that always knows who
> has the lock (and which machine they are on).
>
> Tony
>





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