Re: Atomicity of locks and needs-lock

Edward Harvey wrote:
> Would anybody object to, or favor this idea?
>
> When somebody tries to lock a file that doesn't have needs-lock on it,
> atomically also add the needs-lock property. Conceptually, as far as I
> know by all accounts, it makes no sense to ever lock a file that doesn't
> needslock.
>
This can be done in a hook if somebody needs it, although perhaps not
atomically.
I can easily see cases where this behavior is not desired, 'ad-hoc'
locking of files that are usually never locked, to block inadvertent
commits.

-Jesper

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Received on Fri Apr 28 22:44:20 2006