Eclipse not letting me edit a file under CVS

[jkinz-+hffLmS/kj4 at public.gmane.org]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:26:39AM -0500, Doug wrote:
> Hello:
> I launched eclipse from the command line, and htop reports that
> dsweetser is the owner of the eclipse process.  Good idea though.

OK, my next stupid question is - Does eclipse monitor a file's
"CVS" status? As in "I (Eclipse) wont edit a file thats not
checked out for edit.."...  

Jeff