Re: gnu/42726 (Was: cvs checkout bug existing val-tags and readonlyfs)

[Eugene Grosbein]

Larry Jones wrote:

> Mea culpa -- CVS proper was changed to produce a warning, but there's a
> bug in the DBM replacement code (myndbm.c) that most people use that
> prevents it from being successful; it should work correctly with real
> DBM, though.  An appropriate patch for myndbm is in:
> 
>         <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-cvs/2001-July/006069.html>

One more addition: if I run 'cvs --allow-root=/home/ncvs' instead of 
'cvs --allow-root=/home/ncvs' I see it still tries to create lock
in the repository and fails due to 'Permission denied'.

Eugene Grosbein