Re: "gserver currently only enabled for socket connections"

[Larry Jones]

Brandon Craig Rhodes writes:
> 
> When I attempted to find a forum to which this information and my
> patch could be submitted, I was dismayed to find the project in
> disarray.  Google gives cvshome.org the first match when `cvs' is
> searched for - but this site offers a `cvs-1.11.2.tar.gz' which is
> *different* than the one on ftp.gnu.org.  Is this a rogue site?  Does
> this mean that there are really *two* distributions which both claim
> to be the true 1.11.2?  It would seem that one of these needs to
> identify itself as a branch, or at least another version.

CVS is not a GNU project -- cvshome.org is the official home of CVS. 
I'm not sure why the tar files on ftp.gnu.org and cvshome.org are
different, the file on ftp.gnu.org seems to be a preliminary version. 
The only difference I see is that the documentation in the tar file from
ftp.gnu.org claims to be for CVS 1.11.1.1 rather than CVS 1.11.2; the
code is identical, as is the documentation other than the version
number.

> The address@hidden list seems to consist of almost nothing but spam,
> yet it still seems to be listed as the authoritative forum for cvs
> bugs.  Unless the list will be maintained it should be shut down.

Unfortunately, the FSF has a policy that requires bug report lists to be
open to posting from the general public.  Unless someone volunteers to
moderate the list (which no one has to date), we just have to suffer
through the spam.  It is the authoritative forum for CVS bug reports.

> The problem with the gserver code is that, in client.c, the function
> auth_server(...) attempts to extract a file descriptor from a `struct
> buffer *' through a simple cast:

I believe that's already been fixed in the current development version
of CVS, which you can get from cvshome.org.

-Larry Jones

My dreams are getting way too literal. -- Calvin