Re: Hung CVS server processes

[Larry Jones]

Mike Ayers writes:
> 
>       So...  can the editor zombie or die in some other fashion without the 
> server knowing that it has died?  Wouldn't that leave perpetual CVS 
> processes lying around?

On Unix, the editor can't die without the client knowing about it and
the client can't die without the server knowing about it (unless the
whole client system crashes at an inoportune time -- that's the only
case where keepalive packets are needed).  On Windows, who knows?

If the editor "zombies", then it hasn't died and the client is going to
continue waiting for it to complete and the server will wait for the
client to do something.  There's no way to tell that condition from the
editor simply waiting for the user to do something.

-Larry Jones

It's clear I'll never have a career in sports until I learn
to suppress my survival instinct. -- Calvin