Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/03/20/15:12:15
This particular RCS problem was due to a bug in cygwinb19.dll.
readlink() was ill behaving. Chris Faylor patched this, and eventually
this patch will find its way into the 'official' release (asside: which
one is THE official one?)...
Happy bug hunting :)
Erwin
Stefan Hornburg wrote:
>
> Erwin Achermann <acherman AT inf DOT ethz DOT ch> writes:
>
> > This is really disquieting. vc.el worked like a charm on 19.36.6 and B18
> > but after upgrading to B19, it sometimes fails to check a new version
> > in, with no warning what so ever. But upon co it howls "unexpected end
> > of file RCS/calc.y,v co aborted" leaving me with a small portion of my
> > calc.y file....
> > What makes me really wonder is the fact that this is totally
> > reproducible on some files only...
> > Next when i try to co an old version trough emacs, it complains:" $1\":
> > -c: line 3: syntax error: unexpected end of file"
> >
>
> We had here a problem with B18 diff and non-GnuWin32 RCS tools. With
> large files corruption of the RCS files occurs.
>
> Ciao Stefan
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