[darcs-users] darcs 0.9.21 critical bug on Linux

David Roundy droundy at abridgegame.org
Sun Jun 13 11:16:06 UTC 2004


On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 02:39:42AM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> SF> bash-2.05b$ darcs record --all -m "Retrofitted memory map, and started 
> SF> SDL integration."
> SF> Waiting for lock /home/kc5tja/Projects/site/repos/kestrel/_darcs/lock
> SF> Waiting for lock /home/kc5tja/Projects/site/repos/kestrel/_darcs/lock
> SF> ..repeats forever..
> 
> What filesystem are you using?  If it's vfat, it's the expected
> behaviour, and you should use the workaround above.  (Or, better yet,
> don't use vfat).  If it's Samba, I've got no idea.  If it's anything
> else, it's a bug, and I'm guilty.

Is there a way we could check at runtime for file systems in which this
problem would show up, and in such cases automatically use the workaround?
I don't like the idea of not supporting some file systems in the default
configuration.  :(
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org




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