Re: BUG in "cvs co -r" (CVS 1.11.0)?

[Alexei Lioubimov]

My platform is:
- Win32/CygWin(cygwin1.dll v1.3.6-6)
- CVSROOT=:local:/cygdrive/c/usr/local/CVS

Any suggestions?

Alexei.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Jones" <address@hidden>
To: "Alexei Lioubimov" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: BUG in "cvs co -r" (CVS 1.11.0)?


> Alexei Lioubimov writes:
> >
> > cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot open directory .../CVS/mypoj/Attic: Not a
> > directory
> >
> > It is true -- since i have deleted nothing in myproj yet, i don't have
Attic
> > in it. But why is it impossible to checkout a tag or revision if module
> > doesn't contain Attics?
> >
> > After i manually mkdir _empty_ Attic in .../CVS/mypoj cvs was satisfied
and
> > checked out mytag.
> > Is this a BUG? If yes, then is there a workaround?
>
> It would appear to be a bug in your operating system.  CVS expects an
> attempt to open a non-existent directory to return an ENOENT error, not
> an ENOTDIR error.  What system is this happening on?  And is your
> repository on a local disk or some kind of network file system?
>
> -Larry Jones
>
> It doesn't have a moral, does it?  I hate being told how to live my life.
> -- Calvin
>