Re: co bug with multiple locks in RCS Version 5.7

[Aaron S. Hawley]

i believe a more recent bug report of this issue:

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-rcs/2002-02/msg00018.html

less recent:
http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/354/1999/1/0/1954633/

On Wed, 21 May 2003, Packer, Vincent (Ex AS01) wrote:

> The development environment I am using has RCS version 5.7 running on
> Slackware 9.0. A number of batch files and csh scripts are used to customise
> RCS and make it available from Windows 2000 machines. Although the steps to
> reproduce below may not be sensible in this context, they are in the case of
> the environment I am using. I have reproduced the problem using the co
> executable directly, so the problem is definitely not in the scripts.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
>
> Create a file test.txt with some contents.
> ci -r780.1 -t-"Some description" -m"780 version" test.txt
> co -l test.txt
> modify test.txt
> ci -r790.1 -m"790 version" test.txt
> co -l test.txt
> modify test.txt
> ci -r800.1 -m"800 version" test.txt
> co -l 780 test.txt
> co -l 790 test.txt
> co -l 800 test.txt
>
> The last checkout appears to be successful but does not actually add another
> lock to the file. The output of this command is attached in coout.txt. The
> suspicious line in this is:
> co: test.txt,v: multiple revisions locked by vcp; please specify one
>
> The same output message is seen when trying to unlock one of two locks on
> the same file and the unlock is unsuccessful. Attached is the RCS file
> produced by the above commands.
>
>  <<test.txt,v>>  <<coout.txt>>
>
> Regards,
> Vincent Packer

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