From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32085 invoked from network); 17 May 2002 18:21:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (199.232.76.164) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 May 2002 18:21:20 -0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 178mLg-0005zQ-00; Fri, 17 May 2002 14:21:04 -0400 Received: from natint.juniper.net ([207.17.136.129] helo=merlot.juniper.net) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 178mK9-0005qx-00 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 14:19:30 -0400 Received: from juniper.net (pptp036.static.jnpr.net [172.24.248.36]) by merlot.juniper.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g4HIJQR45424; Fri, 17 May 2002 11:19:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dirk@juniper.net) Message-ID: <3CE549A4.7070907@juniper.net> From: Dirk Bergstrom Organization: software tools User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lars Henriksen CC: Mel Hatzis , help-gnats@gnu.org Subject: Re: use of GNATSDB References: <3CA28C27.6010201@juniper.net> <20020517120308.GA1524344@cluster2.netman.dk> <3CE53E5E.2080402@juniper.net> <20020517181303.GA1558598@cluster2.netman.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: help-gnats-admin@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnats-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnats@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: General discussion about GNU GNATS List-Archive: Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 11:21:00 -0000 X-SW-Source: 2002-q2/txt/msg00051.txt.bz2 On 5/17/2002 11:13 AM, this issued forth from the mind of Lars Henriksen: > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:31:10AM -0700, Dirk Bergstrom wrote: >> On 5/17/2002 5:03 AM, this issued forth from the mind of Lars Henriksen: >> > I can't reproduce this behaviour. Whether GNATSDB is set or not, the command >> > "pr-edit --lockdb" seems to lock nothing at all. Neither does "pr-edit >> > --database= --lockdb". On the other hand, "pr-edit --lock " >> > honors GNATSDB as well as the --database option. >> this is a totally different issue. > Is it? The issue is how or whether GNATSDB is honered by (for example) pr-edit > and it was claimed, without reservations, that it always ended up locking > the default database. As far as I can see, you confirm below that this is > not the case. i guess i wasn't very clear in my explanation: using pr-edit in localhost mode, it is IMPOSSIBLE to lock ANY database. the program locks the db, then unlocks it a few lines later. it's a bug in the localhost mode code, one of many. -- Dirk Bergstrom dirk@juniper.net Computer Geek v: 707.433.0564 Juniper Networks Inc. f: 707.433.0769 "it *looks* like a nail; lemme grab my hammer..." _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats