Re: cvs repository in a bad state, and cvs seg faults on export

[Larry Jones]

Stockinger, Frank writes:
> 
> We do have a similar problem with cvs export in cvs 1.11. BTW, it does not 
> occur
> with cvs 1.10.8.
> As I tracked down, the problem is in cvs checkout.c in the function 
> 'build_one_dir'
> For exporting the function isfile checks whether there is a CVS directory. 
> But, if you use 
> pserver access a CVS directory will be temporaly generated. Therefore the 
> export fails.

I presume you were getting the "cannot export into a working directory"
error message; that's hardly similar to a crash.

> For our purpose I removed the isfile(CVSADM) check...
> Maybe someone could check, whether this correct.

It is not.  I believe this problem is fixed correctly in 1.11.1p1.

-Larry Jones

These things just seem to happen. -- Calvin