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Re: CVS_SERVER
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: CVS_SERVER |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:41:26 -0400 (EDT) |
Greg A. Woods writes:
>
> [ On Wednesday, August 1, 2001 at 15:09:13 (-0700), Mark D. Baushke wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: CVS_SERVER
> >
> > 1) The default CVS_SERVER value is either 'cvs' or argv[0] depending
> > on how the ARGV0_NOT_PROGRAM_NAME macro is defined in main.c
> > The names are sometimes different if the client and server are
> > heterogeneous machines with regard to hardware and/or operating
> > systems (eg, UNIX client and VMS server).
>
> What does that have to do with anything in this thread? That hack is
> simply a way to mangle program_name back into something recognisable by
> the user. I.e. it's the opposite of anything to do with CVS_SERVER. So
> far as I can tell neither argv[0] nor program_name are ever used on any
> platform as the default name of the program to invoke as the server --
> that's always $CVS_SERVER, or if it's not set then the hard-coded string
> "cvs" is used in every case.
No, somewhere along the line I got tired of forgetting to set
$CVS_SERVER when testing new versions of CVS and changed the default
from "cvs" to program_path, which is a copy of argv[0]. It is *NOT*
adjusted according to ARGV0_NOT_PROGRAM_NAME, but perhaps it should be.
-Larry Jones
TIME?! I just finished the first problem! -- Calvin
- Re: CVS_SERVER, (continued)
- Re: CVS_SERVER, Greg A. Woods, 2001/08/01
- Re: CVS_SERVER, Mark D. Baushke, 2001/08/01
- Re: CVS_SERVER, Greg A. Woods, 2001/08/01
- Re: CVS_SERVER, Mark D. Baushke, 2001/08/01
- Re: CVS_SERVER, Mike Castle, 2001/08/01
- Re: CVS_SERVER, Greg A. Woods, 2001/08/01
- Re: CVS_SERVER,
Larry Jones <=
- Re: CVS_SERVER, Greg A. Woods, 2001/08/14
- Re: CVS_SERVER, Larry Jones, 2001/08/14
Re: CVS_SERVER, Mike Castle, 2001/08/01