Derek R. Price writes:
>
> Creating the RCS lock/temp files in the repository regardless of the
> LockDir setting makes it impossible to give a specific user write access
> only to specific files in a directory (i.e. the user has read access to
> the directory but write access to specific files). This could be seen
> as, at least, lack of a useful feature in the case of $CVSROOT/CVSROOT.
It's the only way I know to ensure that an unfortuately timed system
crash doesn't leave you with a missing or corrupt RCS file (rename
within a directory is an atomic operation on most modern systems).
-Larry Jones
Hmph. -- Calvin
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