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Date:      Mon, 02 Nov 1998 00:23:42 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Leif Neland <leifn@swimsuit.internet.dk>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Dmitry Valdov <dv@dv.ru>
Subject:   Re: kernel compile problem
Message-ID:  <XFMail.981102002342.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811012343110.1311-100000@gina.swimsuit.internet.dk>

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On 01-Nov-98 Leif Neland wrote:
>> > After everything is committed, the committer removes the lock.
>> 
>> Why the commiter? Make it so that the cvsupd places a lock temporarily
>> whenever
>> a commit finds place. Then after the person is through with his or her
>> commits
>> it makes all those updated files available to the public for cvsup. Make it
>> so
>> that the daemon does the work and not the commiter. This saves hassle.
>> 
> Not having done any committing, I guess a committer could make several
> changes in different parts of the tree, in smaller chunks. Only the
> committer will know when all the chunks have been committed. So only the
> committer should unlock the changes.
> 
> As equivalent in the Oracle database, one session could make several
> changesin different table, but only after issuing a commit, all changes
> get visible for other sessions, and all at the same time.

That's what I meant =)

Except the Daemon (in this case the Oracle database) allowed the changes.
That's what I meant with the CVSupd too... The committer is expected to comm
it. The Daemon is expected to handle all the administivia of the
allowance/versioning. Hope this makes it clearer for the both of us. And the
others offcourse =)

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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai
asmodai(at)wxs.nl
Junior Network/Security Specialist
FreeBSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve...

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