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things fixed in here, including the '-ko' vs. -A problem with remote cvs which caused all files with -ko to be resent each time (which is damn painful over a modem, I can tell you). It also found a heap of stray empty directories that should have been pruned with the -P flag to cvs update but were not for some reason. It also has the fully integrated rcs and diff, so no more fork/exec overheads for rcs,ci,patch,diff,etc. This means that it parses the control data in the rcs files only once rather than twice or more. If the 'cvs diff' vs. Index thing is going to be fixed for future patch compatability, this is the place to do it.
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See the Cederqvist manual (cvs.texinfo) for information on how to
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report bugs (and what 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 the Cederqvist
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manual). There are some other reported bugs in MINOR-BUGS; the
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difference, at least 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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* One cannot specify some files as binary in a "cvs import" using
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CVSROOT/cvswrappers (for why, note that client_process_import_file has
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no way of knowing about CVSROOT/cvswrappers which is off on the
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server).
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* I don't think that "cvs add" honors any of the -k wrappers, at least
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not in client/server mode. I would think it should. Getting
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CVSROOT/cvswrappers to work would presumably best be done by keeping a
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copy of it in the CVS directory on the client, as has also been
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discussed for CVS/Template, &c. Getting a client-side .cvswrappers to
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work is a separate issue.
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* Need more work on the procedure for fixing it if a binary file is
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accidentally added in text mode (sanity.sh test cases, better
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documentation, probably update and/or admin -kb should update
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the -k setting in CVS/Entries).
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* Wrappers (-t/-f) do not work client/server, and there are a variety of other
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bugs and annoyances with wrappers.
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* If your login name contains a space or various other characters
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(particularly an issue on Windows), CVS will have trouble (it will
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write invalid RCS files, probably). The fix would be to have CVS
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change such characters to underscores before writing them to the RCS
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file. Furthermore, the LOGNAME or USER environment variables usually
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won't override the system login name, so this can be hard to work
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around.
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* If you specify the -w global option to client/server CVS, it only
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overrides a CVSREAD environment variable set on the client, not a
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CVSREAD variable which was set on the server (for example, in .bashrc
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when the server was run via rsh). The fix of course will be to
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provide a "Option-read-write" request which sends -w, in addition to
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"Global_option -r" which sends -r.
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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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* 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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Entries Repository
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert:
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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-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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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt:
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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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* 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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