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Locking the repository

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TGThomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Date
May 6, 2005, 12:31 UTC
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<20050506123122.GF11506@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

Hello, I need a way to lock a repository for certain actions. What can I use to obtain this? Is there a way to use rsync for that? It should also be NFS-safe. Are there are any classic unix tools that I can use for this?

	Thomas
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