RE: "No such file"

[Roe, Kevin L.]

So here is the latest from the cygwin folks:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On
> Behalf Of Eric Blake
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 2:41 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: 1.7.1: cvs version built in is unstable
> 
> On 03/17/2010 03:39 PM, Roe, Kevin L. wrote:
> > This appears to be related to another problem I am encountering.  I
> have described it in the thread "cp: skipping file 'file.txt', as it
> was replaced while being  copied"
> >
> > The same drive that has the CVS issue has the "cp" issue and the
> other drive has neither issue.
> 
> The problem is thus that the drive gives bogus inode values, but cygwin
> does not know how to detect that those values are bogus to use its
> fallback based on file name hashing.
> 
> Is this with cygwin 1.7.1 or a snapshot?  Corinna has done some work in
> CVS for various buggy file systems, but you may have encountered yet
> one more.
> 
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> Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
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-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Jones [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 11:31 AM
To: Roe, Kevin L.
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: "No such file"

Roe, Kevin L. writes:
> 
> S-> RCS_checkout (/usr/gapps/AEAG/cvs_modules/Utilities/p_change.pl,v, 1.8, , 
> , (function))
> cvs checkout: cannot write Utilities/p_change.pl: No such file or directory

Hmmmm, that looks like some kind of a bug/incompatibility in cygwin. 
You need to ask the cygwin folks what would cause

        open(".new.p_change.pl", O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0777)

to fail with errno set to ENOENT.
-- 
Larry Jones

I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world. -- Calvin