[16712] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 [8.2.16]: patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Feb 17 05:48:37 1999
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Feb 1999 08:35:52 EST."
<199902141335.IAA07886@antaeus.grey17.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 05:48:31 EST
> > Yeah, it looks like the problem was due to teh fact that
> > rpcd.c was oened by someone else.
>
> How did you lock the file such that it was owned by someone else? rcs
> -l? Root tickets?
>
> I can submit a bug report to the patch maintainers, but it would be
> nice to know how non-Athena people could get into this situation.
> patch does not parse RCS files to figure out who has a file locked, so
> I wouldn't expect them to be very eager to fix the problem.
I used rcs -u; rcs -l. I suspect it determined that there was a
writable copy of the file owned by someone else. Part of the problem
was that it implied that it looked at the RCS file.
Jonathon
