Steven Johnson said:
At 10:42 AM -0700 6/2/00, Michael Graff wrote:
In the meantime, you could have people use a "checkout.bat" to enforce
exclusive locks. Here's our latest version of checkout.bat:
[snip]
unfortunately, this doesn't help us, because our whole binary-file
problem is on the Macintosh side (trying to manage resource files).
I suggest that you just use p4 edit and p4 lock.
Someone will point out that there is a concurrency issue between the time
the p4 edit and p4 lock commands execute (because they aren't atomic).
Except under the busiest of p4 servers, I think a race condition is an
extremely unlikely ecent.
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