[savannah-help-public] [sr #109208] Spurious lock on gnubg cvs repository

[Assaf Gordon]

Follow-up Comment #4, sr #109208 (project administration):

Hi Bob,

Not sure if it's related, but there's a cvs/lock directory on vcs0 in
/var/lock/cvs/ .

It has files owned by 'nobody':

  address@hidden:/tmp# ls -ld /var/lock/cvs/sources/gnubg
  drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 60 Dec 15 23:32 /var/lock/cvs/sources/gnubg

  address@hidden:/tmp# ls -lA /var/lock/cvs/sources/gnubg
  total 0
  drwxrwxrwx 23 nobody nogroup 480 Dec 20 22:28 gnubg

  address@hidden:/tmp# find /var/lock/cvs/sources/gnubg | wc -l
  50

  address@hidden:/tmp# find /var/lock/cvs/sources/gnubg | head
  /var/lock/cvs/sources/gnubg
  /var/lock/cvs/sources/gnubg/gnubg
  /var/lock/cvs/sources/gnubg/gnubg/#cvs.rfl.vcs0.15281
  /var/lock/cvs/sources/gnubg/gnubg/xpm
  /var/lock/cvs/sources/gnubg/gnubg/win32
  /var/lock/cvs/sources/gnubg/gnubg/textures
  /var/lock/cvs/sources/gnubg/gnubg/sounds
  /var/lock/cvs/sources/gnubg/gnubg/scripts
  /var/lock/cvs/sources/gnubg/gnubg/po
  /var/lock/cvs/sources/gnubg/gnubg/po/gnubg-langs


Perhaps they were created by the new cvs binary running under "nobody" ?
I wonder if they are safe to remove, and we can test whether they are
re-created...
I would think that cvs running from SSH runs as the actual user and thus not
owned by 'nobody',
and 'cvs' running as 'pserver' shouldn't need to lock anything...


-assaf




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