Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/01/27/17:01:58
Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted.
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Frank-Michael Moser wrote:
> Igor Peshansky wrote:
>
> > The problem is with the CVS server running on Cygwin. CVS in client
> > mode works just fine.
>
> I have encountered the same problem, have investigated it a bit and came
> out with two interesting facts:
>
> A) Without changing anything else than replacing cygwin1.dll, using the
> snaphot cygwin1-20050928.dll works fine while using cygwin1-20050929.dll
> produces the problem.
>
> B) Also without changing anything else than replacing cygwin1.dll, using
> the snaphot cygwin1-20050928.dll "mkdir /tmp/foo/." runs fine while with
> cygwin1-20050929.dll you see:
>
> > $ mkdir /tmp/foo/.
> > mkdir: cannot create directory `/tmp/foo/.': No such file or directory
Right. I missed the "." in the original message. The change that
prompted this behavior seems to be
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2005-q3/msg00224.html>. I'm assuming the
motivation for this patch was to duplicate Linux's behavior (which doesn't
allow trailing "." in a path passed to mkdir).
There must be some Cygwin-specific code in cvs that adds that trailing
dot. I'll take a look at the cvs sources later.
Igor
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