[cvsnt] CVSNT 2.0.6 fails in a batch file

John Peacock jpeacock at rowman.com
Tue Jul 22 20:10:33 BST 2003


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Alexandre Augusto Drummond Barroso wrote:

> It seems CMD is spawning processes concurrently so the first process locks the file while the following processes fail.
> So you may use "start /w" before each command to make CMD wait the process termination before interpreting next command line.:

This *may* solve the problem, but then again it may not.  NTFS is very lazy 
about releasing filesystem locks (it's a "performance" hack) and it isn't too 
hard to create a race condition where supposedly atomic changes are blocked 
because the previous process' locks are not yet released.

John



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