[cvsnt] cvs ls: Failed to obtain lock

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Tue Jan 27 22:15:27 GMT 2004


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torsten at tiscali.dk wrote:
  It should be noted that "/cvs/av" is a symbolic link to 
"/home/data/cvsdata/aal/av".
> This is our standard setup (with "vanilla" CVS), and indeed login/checkout/commit
> works fine. It's apparently only "ls" that gives trouble.
> 
Odd.  CVS doesn't do anything to dereference symbolic links so it 
shouldn't even be aware of the other path.  I'll have a look.

Tony




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