net release/installer status?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:38:52PM -0600, Mumit Khan wrote:
>On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Chris Faylor wrote:
>
>> I just did a cvs update to grab this change but nothing got updated.
>> Am I just being impatient or is there a problem?
>
>It's hitting a lock, and spinning since I sent the mail out. CVS has
>certain bugs that will cause a lock left in place when a remote
>connection aborts.  Could you please check the mingw directory to see
>if there's a .#* file there?
>
>cvs server: [20:21:45] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/src/src/winsup/mingw
>cvs server: [20:22:15] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/src/src/winsup/mingw
>[ ... ]
>cvs server: [20:37:44] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/src/src/winsup/mingw

I removed the lock.  It was referring to a nonexistent process so you're probably
right about the aborted connection.

This is at least the second time that something like this has happened
in the mingw directory...

cgf