Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Re-creating a depot?

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 05:19:13PM -0500, graydon hoare wrote:
> sounds like "bug". it ought to report locking failure if it's locked, 
> otherwise let you go. though, honestly, I haven't investigated 
> concurrent access to a single database very much. sqlite supposedly does 
> handle it, but I haven't given it a real shake.

No, somehow monotone always locks the whole database while running.
(I remember having some fun figuring this out when I had C-z'ed some
running monotone and then forgotten about it...).  I'm not entirely
sure why.

It really is locking, I think, not just a funny bug.  If I start a
monotone process and then run 'sqlite monotone.db', sqlite starts
up fine, but any commands give "Error: database is locked", a much
less ambiguous diagnostic than monotone gives...

-- Nathaniel

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