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Re: sleep 2 in loginfo example


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: sleep 2 in loginfo example
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:29:42 -0500 (EST)

Laird Nelson writes:
> 
> I'm interested in the "sleep 2" command.  I understand needing to run
> cvs update in the background to avoid locks.  I don't see what the sleep
> 2 is for.

It's not necessary, it's just intended to give the in-progress commit a
chance to complete before the update runs and thus hopefully avoid
having to wait for the lock.

-Larry Jones

That's one of the remarkable things about life.  It's never so
bad that it can't get worse. -- Calvin



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