Re: cvs rdiff -t consistently crashes with SEGV when processing files

[Mark D. Baushke]

Derek Robert Price <derek@ximbiot.com> writes:

> Mark D. Baushke wrote:
> 
> >Hi James,
> >
> >Yes, I reproduced the problem on a Redhat 7.3 GNU/Linux system with a
> >2.4.18-27.7.x kernel using the cvs-1.11.1p1-8.7 package version of cvs.
> >
> >I was also able to reproduce the problem on the same box using a stock
> >cvs-1.11.5 version.
> >
> >I was NOT able to reproduce the problem with a cvs1-11-x-branch version
> >of the sources. I just tried and I was not able to reproduce the problem.
> >
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Did you save the command that reproduces the problem to a script?  

The command was just the 'cvs rdiff -t m' on the repository generated by
the commands in the script that James provided.

> Was it on a temporary repository? 

Yup, but I still have it around in /tmp/cvs-rdiff-bug

> If so, would you mind checking it into sanity.sh on both branches as a
> one liner tacked onto an rdiff test or something? I tried to check in
> a test fo this myself, but I could duplicate this with my existing
> repository and not the repo created by the rdiff test.

Hmmm... I'll see what I can do.

        -- Mark