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Re: cvs repository in a bad state, and cvs seg faults on export
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: cvs repository in a bad state, and cvs seg faults on export |
Date: |
Fri, 4 May 2001 11:57:53 -0400 (EDT) |
Stockinger, Frank writes:
>
> We do have a similar problem with cvs export in cvs 1.11. BTW, it does not
> occur
> with cvs 1.10.8.
> As I tracked down, the problem is in cvs checkout.c in the function
> 'build_one_dir'
> For exporting the function isfile checks whether there is a CVS directory.
> But, if you use
> pserver access a CVS directory will be temporaly generated. Therefore the
> export fails.
I presume you were getting the "cannot export into a working directory"
error message; that's hardly similar to a crash.
> For our purpose I removed the isfile(CVSADM) check...
> Maybe someone could check, whether this correct.
It is not. I believe this problem is fixed correctly in 1.11.1p1.
-Larry Jones
These things just seem to happen. -- Calvin