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> -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Hoyle [mailto:tmh at nodomain.org] > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 12:50 PM > To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > Subject: [cvsnt] Re: Benefits of CVSNT vs cvs (cyclic) 1.11.x??? > > > Rick Silton wrote: > > 7. Separate locking process (I'm not positive of the benefit.) > > If the server crashes then you never get stray lock files, > which means you > don't need to have an admin log into the server and clean up. > > Tony But doesn't a separate locking process also give the opportunity for finer user controls. IE, without the lock server, I can't give a user read-only (no commit) access to a module as the process has to create, write, then delete a lock file.