[NCLUG] CVS Auto update of web pages?

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:38:18PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> >My implementation sent an email to the webserver user which upon receipt
> >took a local lock, ran cvs up, ran make, slept for 180 seconds and
> >released the lock.
> 
> Doesn't that mean that if you have two commits done in less than 3 minutes,
> only the first will actually be done?

No, it means the results of the second commit may be delayed up to 3 minutes.
It's a sleeping lock.  Something we can all live with, I think.

> I'd think you'd want to:
> 
>    get lock
>    sleep 180
>    drop lock
>    do update

Nah, that delays all updates by 3 minutes.

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