Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Sharing a library between multiple developers

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Andrew Suffield <address@hidden>
    > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:44:24PM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:

    > >     > From: Matthieu Moy <address@hidden>

    > >     > address@hidden (Julian T. J. Midgley) writes:

    > >     > > In article <address@hidden>,
    > >     > > Aaron Bentley  <address@hidden> wrote:
    > >     > >>Julian T. J. Midgley wrote:
    > >     > >>> Are any problems likely to result from allowing many 
developers=
    >  to
    > >     > >>> share a single tla library?=20

    > >     > A good question here is:

    > >     > Is tla robust to concurent calls to 'tla library-add' ?=20

    > > I believe so.   Bugs are bugs but, so far as I know, it's robust.

    > FSVO "robust"; IIRC, there is at least a chance that one of the tla
    > processes will return an error, which isn't really ideal and means you
    > need external locking if you're going to automate it. It just won't
    > mangle the revision library in the process.


Um.... just try to add it and ignore the status.   Then ask if it's
there and don't ignore the status.

-t