Creating a tag

[law@redhat.com]

In message <116410000.1024514895@warlock.codesourcery.com>, Mark Mitchell write
s:
 > 
 > 
 > --On Wednesday, June 19, 2002 01:21:08 PM -0600 "law@redhat.com" 
 > <law@redhat.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > In message <98810000.1024508455@warlock.codesourcery.com>, Mark Mitchell
 > > writes :
 > >  > I'm trying to create a tag with "cvs tag".
 > >  >
 > >  > I started that operation at 9:00 AM; it's now 10:36 AM.  I've been
 > >  > watching "waiting for ...'s lock" messages go by that entire time.
 > >  > (With different lognames and directories over that time period, but
 > >  > with the same directories appearing more than once.)
 > > That indicates that you're making progress (albiet slowly).
 > 
 > Indeed.  As of now (12:24PM), a stream of Ts is going across my screen, so
 > it is working.  (I bet that means everyone else is waiting for me now,
 > but it seems to be tagging several files per second, so hopefully it
 > won't be too long...)
 > 
 > >  > Does CVS refuse to grab a lock for me until it can grab locks in all of
 > >  > the directories at once, or some such?  (Such a protocol might be in
 > >  > use to avoid deadlock.)
 > > Not that I'm aware of.  Which is why I find it interesting that the same
 > > directory appeared more than once.
 > 
 > Here are some examples:
 > 
 > cvs server: [09:08:08] waiting for sje's lock in /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc
 > cvs server: [09:15:39] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc
 > cvs server: [10:27:37] waiting for rth's lock in /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc
 > cvs server: [10:41:30] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc
 > cvs server: [10:45:01] waiting for rth's lock in /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc
Presumably there were other directories interlaced with these?

jeff