missing directories cause cvs to hard error

[matt]

>Submitter-Id:  net
>Originator:    Matt Sexton
>Organization:  The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA 01760
>Confidential:  no
>Synopsis:      missing directories cause cvs to hard error
>Severity:      non-critical
>Priority:      medium
>Category:      cvs
>Class:         sw-bug
>Release:       1.11.1p1
>Environment:
System: Linux sextonmlinux 2.4.17 #2 SMP Fri Feb 15 17:31:54 EST 2002 i686 
unknown
Architecture: i686

>Description:
        If I type "cvs status" in a directory, and a file is missing, I get a
        "Needs Checkout" message.
        If I type "cvs status" in a directory, and a directory is missing, I
        get a hard error: "cvs [status aborted]: could not chdir to XXX: No 
        such file or directory".
        Could this hard error be changed to a simple message "XXX missing"
        so that cvs would continue to work on other directories?
>How-To-Repeat:
        Create a working directory containing subdirectories and files.
        Remove a file.
        Type "cvs status".
        Remove a directory.
        Type "cvs status".
>Fix:
        Edit the CVS/Entries file?