Re: Dotfiles on VMS (patch)

[Derek Robert Price]

Karsten Spang wrote:

> CVS 1.11.2 is unable to read "dotfiles" in the home directory on VMS,
> most notably ~/.cvsrc and ~/.cvsignore. For some the reason, these
> fixes were already done for ~/.cvspass, but not for the above files.
> The following three patches to 1.11.2 fixes these problems, as well
> as for ~/.cvswrappers. Note that this does not necessarily imply that
> CVS wrappers work on VMS.
>
> Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
> Dan Net A/S
>
> Karsten Spang
> Systemudvikler


Thanks for the patch.  I checked in a fix, using your advice, but I 
abstracted a strcat_filename_onto_homedir function rather than switching 
at each location.  It passes the test suite on UNIX, but I don't have a 
VMS machine to run tests on.  Please let me know if you have any 
problems with my fix.

The better fix would have been to abstract path composition entirely, 
but I don't have time to write it just now.  Maybe we could use the 
version from Perl?  They're already portable to many systems...

Derek

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