Re: CVS DoS

[kris () FREEBSD ORG (Kris Kennaway)]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> of the filesystem used by CVS to maintain its lock state. It's also not
> quite as serious as it might first sound, because anyone who can
> legitimately connect to the CVS server remotely via CVS can cause a lock
> to be taken out over any part of the repository, with the same effect.

Sorry, but on further thought I don't think this is true. Locks are only
acquired for CVS write operations, not read operations.

Kris

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