[Python-Dev] CVS locks on SF

[Guido van Rossum]

> I'm getting loads of lock messages during CVS checkins recently.
> Is this due to overload ? (I wonder why anoncvs access causes
> locking at all -- there is no write access so why should there
> be file locking ?):

I haven't seen this myself.  Could be you were just unlucky.  Could be
someone was doing a full checkout over a slow connection.

I think the anon checkouts still use (read) locks because they need to
get a consistent version.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)