Re: Abandoned CVS server processes

[Dan Peterson]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Larry Jones wrote:

> >   2. Two processes; the first has a parent of "inet" and it's child
> > seems to be spinning and using lots of CPU (after about 34 hours one
> > process has used about 24 hours of CPU).  The sockets associated with
> > the first process are in an IDLE state.
>
> That would indicate a bug in CVS.
>
> > I attached to each of the processes in this state with gdb and
> > determined they were spinning in a tight loop inside
> > rcs.c:translate_symtag().
>
> This is a bug that I just recently fixed -- translate_symtag would go
> into an infinite loop if the tag was "".

What do you mean if the tag was ""?  Does that mean there's a file that
contains a blank tag?  Or they're trying to operate on a file and specify
-r "", or something else?

In other words, how can I test this?  Do I need to checkin a file that
contains a specific type of tag, or do I just need to run a specific
command (or commands) on any file?