Re: intermittent problems occuring in 1.11.5

[Larry Jones]

Pat Li writes:
> 
> We have recently upgraded from CVS 1.11.1p1 to 1.11.5 and a lot of
> errors have been occuring intermittently.  Was wondering if any of you
> experts out there have experienced similar problems or could shed some
> lights on what might be causing it.

[RCS file sanity check errors]

> These problems only happen intermittently though, so it doesnt look
> like those ,v files are corrupted.

The only relevant change I can find is that CVS will now use mmap() (if
available) to map the RCS file into memory and access it directly rather
than reading it in using normal I/O routines; the most likely problem is
that your system has a defective mmap() routine.  Check your generated
config.h file for HAVE_MMAP.  You'll almost certainly find that it's
#define'd to 1; comment out that definition and rebuild CVS.  If that
eliminates the errors, you know that your mmap() is broken -- please
check with your system vendor for fixes.

-Larry Jones

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