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See the README file for information on how to report bugs (and what
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will happen to your bug reports if you do).
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The following is a list of some of the known bugs. It may or may not
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be comprehensive. We would dearly love for people to volunteer to
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help us keep it up to date (for starters, if you notice any
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inaccuracies, please let bug-cvs know as described in README). There
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are some other reported bugs in MINOR-BUGS; the difference, at least
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in theory, is that those bugs are less serious.
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* For platform-specific information (in some cases including known
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bugs), see README.VMS, windows-NT/README, or os2/README. There is no
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similar file for the unix-like operating systems (not yet, at least).
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This file also might contain some platform-specific bugs.
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* Some people have reported seeing the message "dying gasps from %s
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unexpected" (where %s is the name of your server) when using
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client/server CVS. One person reported that this had to do with using
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pserver and trying to run a program not in the PATH (which is set up
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by inetd, I think) from one of the *info scripts. But noone has
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carefully tracked this down (is it caused by something in the server
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writing to stdout or stderr when it shouldn't? But then wouldn't the
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"dying gasps" message be preceded by "warning: unrecognized response
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`%s' from cvs server"?).
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* "make remotecheck" sometimes fails on test 187a3 with
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cvs server: in directory .:
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cvs [server aborted]: *PANIC* administration files missing
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This does not happen every time. (-kingdon, Nov 96, Red Hat linux 3.0.3).
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* The -m option to "cvs add" does not work with client/server CVS.
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CVS will accept the option, but it won't actually set the
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file's description.
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* cvs update walks into a user's work directory if there's a directory
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of the same name in the repository even if the user's directory
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doesn't yet have a CVS admin sub-directory. This can greatly confuse
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users who try to add the same directory at nearly the same time.
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* 'cvs admin' dumped core when files were missing from working directory
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(and from the repository)?
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* `cvs checkout -d nested/dir/path <module>' just doesn't work. The
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simpler version -- `cvs checkout -d single-dir <module>' works,
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however.
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* The following bug was reported against CVS 1.9:
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Create a module named test with a file named test in it.
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cactus:sfavor> cvs get test
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cvs checkout: Updating test
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U test/test
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cactus:sfavor> cd test
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cactus:sfavor> cvs get test
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cvs checkout: cannot chdir to test: Not a directory
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cvs checkout: ignoring module test
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Exit 1
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cactus:sfavor> cvs update
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cvs update: Updating .
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rcs.c:2139: failed assertion `rev == NULL || isdigit (*rev)'
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Abort (core dumped)
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Exit 134
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* pcl-cvs doesn't like it when you try to check in a file which isn't
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up-to-date. The messages produced by the server perhaps don't match
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what pcl-cvs is looking for.
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* From: billr@mpd.tandem.com (Bill Robertson)
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Subject: Problem with rtag and the -D option
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 10:53:29 -0600 (CST)
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I have been trying to use the -D option to specify a date for tagging, but
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rtag does not recognize the -D option. It is documented to do so and I've
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tested the use of -D with cvs update and cvs diff and it works fine there.
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* Defining RELATIVE_REPOS is said to not work with client/server CVS.
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* From: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@ai.mit.edu>
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To: info-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu
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Subject: Still one more bug
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Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 17:01:15 -0500
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mycroft@duality [1]; cd /usr/src/lib/libc
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mycroft@duality [1]; cvs diff -c2 '-D1 day ago' -Dnow
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cvs server: Diffing .
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cvs server: Diffing DB
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cvs [server aborted]: could not chdir to DB: No such file or directory
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mycroft@duality [1];
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`DB' is an old directory, which no longer has files in it, and is
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removed automatically when I use the `-P' option to checkout.
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This error doesn't occur when run locally.
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P.S. Is anyone working on fixing these bugs?
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* From: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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To: Cyclic CVS Hackers <info-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu>
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Subject: weird bug
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Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 16:41:41 -0500
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X-Windows: Even your dog won't like it.
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I just noticed some droppings on my disk from what must be a pretty weird
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bug in remote CVS.
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In my home directory on a repository machine I use, I find:
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drwxr-xr-x 4 roland staff 512 Mar 7 14:08 cvs-serv28962
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drwxr-xr-x 4 roland staff 512 Mar 7 14:11 cvs-serv28978
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drwxr-xr-x 4 roland staff 512 Mar 7 15:13 cvs-serv29141
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OK, so these are leftover cruft from some cvs run that got aborted.
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Well, it should clean up after itself, but so what.
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The last one is pretty dull; the real weirdness is the contents of the
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first two directories.
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duality 77 # ls -RF cvs-serv28978/
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CVS/ cvs-serv28978/
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cvs-serv28978/CVS:
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Entries Repository
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978:
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arpa/
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa:
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CVS/ cvs-serv28978/
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/CVS:
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Entries Repository
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978:
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assert/
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert:
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CVS/ cvs-serv28978/
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/CVS:
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Entries Repository
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978:
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bare/
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare:
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CVS/ cvs-serv28978/
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/CVS:
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Entries Repository
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978:
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conf/
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf:
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CVS/ cvs-serv28978/
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/CVS:
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978:
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crypt/
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt:
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CVS/ cvs-serv28978/
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/CVS:
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/cvs-serv28978:
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csu/
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/cvs-serv28978/csu:
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CVS/ cvs-serv28978/
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/cvs-serv28978/csu/CVS:
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/cvs-serv28978/csu/cvs-serv28978:
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ctype/
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/cvs-serv28978/csu/cvs-serv28978/ctype:
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CVS/ cvs-serv28978/
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[...]
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ls: cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/cvs-serv28978/csu/cvs-serv28978/ctype/cvs-serv28978/dirent/cvs-serv28978/elf/cvs-serv28978/gnu/cvs-serv28978/gnulib/cvs-serv28978/grp/cvs-serv28978/hurd/cvs-serv28978/hurd/hurd/cvs-serv28978/inet/cvs-serv28978/inet/arpa/cvs-serv28978/inet/netinet[...]/cvs-serv28978/posix/cvs-serv28978/posix/glob/cvs-serv28978/posix/gnu/cvs-serv28978/posix/sys/cvs-serv28978/protocols/cvs-serv28978/pwd/cvs-serv28978/resolv/cvs-serv28978/resolv/arpa/cvs-serv28978/resolv/sys/cvs-serv28978/resource/cvs-serv28978/resource/sys/cvs-serv28978/rpc/cvs-serv28978/setjmp/cvs-serv28978/signal/cvs-serv28978/signal/sys/cvs-serv28978/socket/cvs-serv28978/socket: File name too long
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/cvs-serv28978/csu/cvs-serv28978/ctype/cvs-serv28978/dirent/cvs-serv28978/elf/cvs-serv28978/gnu/cvs-serv28978/gnulib/cvs-serv28978/grp/cvs-serv28978/hurd/cvs-serv28978/hurd/hurd/cvs-serv28978/inet/cvs-serv28978/inet/arpa/cvs-serv28978/inet/netinet[...]/cvs-serv28978/posix/glob/cvs-serv28978/posix/gnu/cvs-serv28978/posix/sys/cvs-serv28978/protocols/cvs-serv28978/pwd/cvs-serv28978/resolv/cvs-serv28978/resolv/arpa/cvs-serv28978/resolv/sys/cvs-serv28978/resource/cvs-serv28978/resource/sys/cvs-serv28978/rpc/cvs-serv28978/setjmp/cvs-serv28978/signal/cvs-serv28978/signal/sys/cvs-serv28978/socket/cvs-serv28978:
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* From: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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To: Cyclic CVS Hackers <info-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu>
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Subject: bizarre failure mode
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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 95 14:17:28 -0500
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This is pretty weird:
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CVS_SERVER='TMPDIR=. /usr/local/bin/cvs' ../cvs-build/src/cvs update -q
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cvs [server aborted]: could not get working directory: Result too large
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[Exit 1]
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asylum 29 % grep 'Result too large' /usr/include/sys/errno.h
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#define ERANGE 34 /* Result too large */
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Now, getcwd fails with ERANGE when the buffer is too small. But I don't
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know why that would be the case; I don't think there are exceptionally long
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directory names involved. It would be robust to notice ERANGE and use a
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bigger buffer. But I suspect something weirder is going on.
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The repository in question in duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/gd4/gnu/cvsroot/libc.
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Send me a PGP-signed message if you want the password to use the machine
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where the problem showed up.
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