How can I detect the LOCK option --force in pre-lock?

[dundee]

Hi,

we would like to suppress the possiblity of "steal lock" when locking a file.
Best place, I can imagine to implement, is the pre-lock hook script.

But how can I retrieve the --force information there?


TIA

Ciao

Olaf

[Argeman]

Hi!
Taken from the sample hook-script "pre-lock"

#!/bin/sh

...

REPOS="$1"
PATH="$2"
USER="$3"

# If a lock exists and is owned by a different person, don't allow it
# to be stolen (e.g., with 'svn lock --force ...').

# (Maybe this script could send email to the lock owner?)
SVNLOOK=/usr/local/bin/svnlook
GREP=/bin/grep
SED=/bin/sed

LOCK_OWNER=`$SVNLOOK lock "$REPOS" "$PATH" | \
$GREP '^Owner: ' | $SED 's/Owner: //'`

# If we get no result from svnlook, there's no lock, allow the lock to
# happen:
if [ "$LOCK_OWNER" = "" ]; then
exit 0
fi

# If the person locking matches the lock's owner, allow the lock to
# happen:
if [ "$LOCK_OWNER" = "$USER" ]; then
exit 0
fi

# Otherwise, we've got an owner mismatch, so return failure:
echo "Error: $PATH already locked by ${LOCK_OWNER}." 1>&2
exit 1

[Argeman]

OK, the color wasnt that geat idea...

I forgot to mind you that unlocking could also be tried by someone who is not the owner of the lock. The pre-unlock template provides the same functionality....

[dundee]

Hello Argeman,

yes, you're right. There is no need to get the --force option from the command line.

Thanks for the info.

Ciao

Olaf

[J.C.P.]

First of all, thanks for this script!! Was exactly what I was looking for!! Now, I would like to know if there is any possibility to send an email to the lock's owner to advice that someone else try to lock a file.

[andyl]