Re: cvs [log aborted]: linefeed expected in file.c,v

[Larry Jones]

Ashok Yerneni writes:
> 
>    Another related question. It seems like the files ARE getting corrupted 
> as they are being checked in.
> This seems to happen very frequently and am pretty concerned about finding 
> a real solution. I do notice
> that our linux systems are running cvs version 1.10.7 and the solaris 
> systems are running cvs version 1.9.
> Does this have any thing to do with the problem? In the past when we were 
> only developing on solaris, we never
> had any problems. Our repository is on solaris.

No, it doesn't have anything to do with the differing CVS versions, it's
caused by NFS bugs in Solaris, Linux, or both, which prevent them from
interoperating reliably.  Use one of the client/server CVS methods to
access the repository instead of NFS mounting it.

-Larry Jones

I told her to expect you to deny everything. -- Calvin