Re: Possible Spam: Re: CVS and SSH V2

[Derek Price]

Russ Sherk wrote:

>I think you can put the port into CVS_RSH.  Here is mine on winXP using plink:
>--------
>Z:\>echo %CVS_RSH%
>"d:\Tools\plink.exe" -ssh -pw "xxxxxx"
>Z:\>echo %CVSROOT%
>:ext:address@hidden:/var/cvs
>-------
>Does this not work on linux?
>  
>

No.  It's an implementation difference.  The src/run.c piped_child
function accepts an argv array as an argument on Linux and passes that
argv directly to execvp.  Since argv[0] holds the contents of $CVS_RSH,
the system looks for a process names "$CVS_RSH", spaces, arguments, and
all.  The windows-NT/run.c pipted_child function turns it's argv into a
single string with space-delimited arguments which it then passes back
to the Windows shell for parsing, so the contents of $CVS_RSH gets
resplit on spaces.

Regards,

Derek