Re: PATCH: backport of symlink fix for issue 142 to cvs 1.11.9.1

[Derek Robert Price]

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Paul Edwards wrote:

| Has LockDir been available "forever"? If not, it was introduced,
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|and due to lack of consideration for symbolic links, there is a
|trap waiting for anyone who uses it.


A trap which is not avoided by this patch.

Regardless, LockDir only added the trap with symlinked directories.  The
trap with symlinked files has existed as long as CVS.

Derek

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