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@@ -60,3 +60,5 @@ I was able to work out that when I'm seeing this page save misbehavior, my plugi
 Can you offer an educated guess what's going wrong here? --[[Schmonz]]
 
 > Got `rcs_recentchanges` working, believe it or not, thanks to [cvsps](http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/). If I can figure out this interaction between the post-commit hook and `cvs add` on directories, the CVS plugin is mostly done. Could it be a locking issue? Where should I be looking? Any suggestions appreciated. --[[Schmonz]]
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+>> Okay, it is definitely a locking issue. First, on the conjecture that `cvs add <directory>` was triggering the post-commit hook and confusing ikiwiki, I wrapped the ikiwiki post-commit binary with a shell script that exited 0 if the triggering file was a directory. The first half of the conjecture was correct -- my wrapper got triggered -- but the web add of `one/two/three.mdwn` (where `one` and `two` weren't existing CVS-controlled dirs) remained hung as before. There were two ikiwiki processes running. On a whim, I killed the one with the higher PID; `cvs add one` immediately completed successfully, then back to a hang and two ikiwiki processes. I killed the newer one again and then `cvs add one/two` and `cvs add one/two/three.mdwn` completed and the web add was successful.