Re: Bug with paths containing '/./' in file paths?

[Abhinandan Jain]

Perhaps "bug" was too strong a term. My point is that the longstanding
behavior of CVS (several years and at least until 1.11.4) has been to
accept such legal variants of relative paths. I am not sure why this has
changed and whether the change is intentional or a side-effect of some
other mod to CVS.

I have modified our scripts to work around this more restrictive
behavior. However I did want to highlight this issue for the benefit of
others who are more knowlegeable about the CVS internals.

Abhi

> It looks to me like your script is broken.  The /./ in the middle of the
> path although legal does nothing.  Why not fix the script?
> 
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> With versions of CVS later than 1.11.14, when I run commands such as 
> 
>       cvs rlog -N Modules/SiteDefs/./mkHome/auto/Drun
> 
> I get error messages like 
> 
>    Assertion failed: strstr (repository, "/./") == NULL, file recurse.c,
> line 642
>    Error: cvs [rlog aborted]: received abort signal
> 
> However changing the path to remove the './' in the file path, eg. 
> 
>       cvs rlog -N Modules/SiteDefs/mkHome/auto/Drun
> 
> works fine. 
> 
> I would expect CVS to not choke on the file path with the './' in it because
> it is a legal path. Unfortunately, these CVS commands are generated by
> higher level scripts and I do not have direct control over the path syntax,
> and so it would be nice to fix this behavior.
> 
> I do not see this problem with CVS 1.11.4. I checked out 1.11.17 and the
> problem remains.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Abhi
> 
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