New - Non existant files can be locked with cryptic error messages.

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2985

                 Issue #|2985
                 Summary|Non existant files can be locked
with cryptic error me
                        |ssages.
               Component|subversion
                 Version|1.4.x
                Platform|All
                     URL|http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/svn?date=200

                        |7-10-17,Wed;raw=on
              OS/Version|All
                  Status|NEW
       Status whiteboard|
                Keywords|
              Resolution|
              Issue type|DEFECT
                Priority|P3
            Subcomponent|unknown
             Assigned to|issuessubversion
             Reported by|revragnarok






------- Additional comments from revragnaroktigris.org Tue Oct 23 09:47:46 -0700 2007 -------
In a nutshell, you can lock a file, then delete the file,
but retain the lock.
This is in effect a denial-of-service because then the file
can never be created
again, even by the user holding the lock on the now-obsolete
file.

Some on IRC said this can be a useful feature. If it is
decided the
functionality should be kept, I feel the errors being
returned need to indicate
in a better manner what is actually failing.

Specific test case and peer-review at
http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/svn?date=
2007-10-17,Wed;raw=on around
21:00. Search for "RevRag" because I misspelled
the name on the paste page (
http://paste.lisp
.org/display/49343 ). If you do "svn cat" on
the locked file,
you get error 404 (but if the file doesn't exist at all, you
get "path not found").

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http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2985




User cmpilato changed the following:

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------- Additional comments from cmpilatotigris.org Tue Oct 23 09:55:42 -0700 2007 -------
Closing as a duplicate of issue #2507.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 2507 ***

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