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Date:	Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:01:48 -0400
From:	"Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To:	Fons Rademakers <Fons DOT Rademakers AT cern DOT ch>
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Subject:	Re: cvs update: error reading...
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It's a cygwin bug, not a cvs bug.  From /usr/doc/Cygwin/cvs-1.10.8:

> Jason Tishler reported that cvs gives annoying errors when using 
> cvs in client mode (e.g. using rsh) on Win98 
>   http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-08/msg00462.html
> 
> $ cvs update
> cvs update: error reading current directory: Function not implemented
> 
> but the update functions properly.
> 
> status: Probably fixed by a post-1.1.4 changes to cygwin. If you 
> observe this problem, please try a post-1.1.4 development snapshot 
> of cygwin (or cygwin-1.1.5 if it's available) -- but be warned: as 
> always, development snapshots are unsupported and not guaranteed to 
> work. 

Try the latest cygwin snapshot and use the /usr/bin/cvs.  

--Chuck



Fons Rademakers wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  with the latest cygwin I got the new cvs 1.10.8. However, running the
> command:
> 
> cvs -q update
> 
> in a locally checkedout directory I get many messages:
> 
> cvs update: error reading current directory: Function not implemented
> 
> The "old" 1.10 version of cvs provided by cygutils does not generate this
> error message. I re-installed this cygutils version in /usr/local/bin and
> use that now. Better would be to have a patch for the 1.10.8 that comes
> with cygwin.
>

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