RE: cvs rdiff -t consistently crashes with SEGV when processing files

[James Cribb]

I just built cvs-1.11.5.tar.bz2 from cvshome.org and it too crashes with
SEGV on the same command in the script.

It happens on more than one machine here (SMP kernels 2.4.19 and 2.4.2),
so it's not a hardware problem.

Here is the "version" part of the output from the original script:


#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# System details
cvs -version

Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.5 (client/server)

Copyright (c) 1989-2002 Brian Berliner, david d `zoo' zuhn,
                        Jeff Polk, and other authors

CVS may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public
License,
a copy of which can be found with the CVS distribution kit.

Specify the --help option for further information about CVS

rpm -qf `which cvs`
which cvs
file /home/gjc/cvs/cvs-1.11.5/src/cvs is not owned by any package
rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.4.2-2
uname -a
Linux svlx-fcs062 2.4.19 #3 SMP Fri Jan 10 13:42:32 EST 2003 i686
unknown
head -1 /etc/issue
Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf)


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