Re: strange line in CVSROOT/commitlog

[Paul MacAdam]

Thank you very much. That cleared it up.

Since I have a :pserver setup, under which all processes run
as system user "cvs" and the entire repository is owned by user "cvs,"
I probably should NOT use LockDir. Would you agree? Not that it's bad --
there's just no real advantage (unless setting LockDir prevents CVS
from locking on a by-directory basis).


PaulM




Shubhabrata Sengupta wrote:

> The locks are still being made in /tmp/cvslock - /tmp/cvs-serv15476
> directory is not made for creating locks - CVS creates the directory and
> puts the yet to be checked in copy of the file in there so that it can run
> the commitinfo script on it. Only if the commitinfo script returns 0 does it
> go ahead and modify the corresponding ,v file, Even here it makes a copy of
> the ,v file before it modifies it. Normally you don't point the LockDir
> variable to anything then the locks would be created in the directory in the
> repository where you are checking in files to.
>
> To see the contents of the /tmp/cvs-<pid of cvs process> directory - write a
> commitinfo script and put a sleep in it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Shubho
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul MacAdam <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden <address@hidden>
> Date: Thursday, June 07, 2001 4:07 AM
> Subject: strange line in CVSROOT/commitlog
>
> >Kind of a follow-up to previous question.
> >(BTW, $USER and $CVSROOT in loginfo worked great!).
> >
> >In CVSROOT/config, I have LockDir set to: /tmp/cvslock
> >The directory is drwxrwxr-x 4 cvs cvs
> >
> >In CVSROOT/loginfo, I have the following line:
> >
> >  ALL (echo ""; echo $USER; date; echo %{sVv}; cat) >>
> >$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/commitlog
> >
> >What's strange is the entry in CVSROOT/commitlog:
> >
> >paul
> >Wed Jun  6 14:55:29 PDT 2001
> >CVSROOT loginfo,1.6,1.7
> >Update of /cvs-root/CVSROOT
> >In directory cvs.mycompany.com:/tmp/cvs-serv15476
> >
> >Modified Files:
> > loginfo
> >Log Message:
> > added echo before USER to record username in commitlog
> >
> >
> >I would have expected the line "In directory
> >cvs.mycompany.com:/tmp/cvs-serv15476"
> >to instead read "In directory cvs.mycompany.com:/tmp/cvslock"
> >
> >... or something like that.
> >
> >
> >Does it look right to you? Maybe more generally, do you recommend the
> >use of LockDir?
> >
> >PaulM
> >
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