[cvsnt] Re: Problems with 2.0.62.1849....

[Tony Hoyle]

Bo Berglund wrote:
> 
> The problem is that the PID is used when collecting the data from the
> various calls to loginfo cvs does on multi-directory commits. In order
> to really get all data into a single email there is a delay
> (configurable) of about a minute in most cases before the data are
> actually collected into an email and sent. During this time the cvs
> process has exited so the PID is no longer valid and can be reused.

You don't really need a delay...  it's possible to work it out 
(log_accum.pl does it), or just trigger the email on postcommand/postcommit.

You should be able to still use the PID if you really need to though.

> 
> Remains to find out what to do about CVSROOT, it still screws up on
> me. Cvs is sending in the folder name instead of the logical name as
> supplied by the user, and I cannot use that.
> 
I'll just change CVSROOT to give the virtual name for the next version.

Tony