Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/02/03/23:11:35
>> i'm trying to use cygwin's cvs in server-mode for another application
>> I get the following error, but on a linux-system, everything is fine!
>>
>> E cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-serv784/.
>> error No such file or directory
>
> Already discussed:
> <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/threads.html#01207>
> <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg01357.html>
>
> It's the trailing dot that is the problem, which it seems like cvs is
> erroneously adding. Previous versions of Cygwin accepted it, but the
> change was made to reject such calls to mkdir() in order to more
> linux-like. I'm not sure about the errno returned, though.
Right, the trailing dot is the problem _but_ the directory
"/tmp/cvs-serv784" is created by cvs, but cvs then additionally tries to
create "/tmp/cvs-serv784/."
As i demonstrated, my Linux returns the error "file already exists"
instead of cygwin's "no such file or directory". So the problem is
perhaps gone, if cygwin becomes more Linux-like once again ;-)
> A reported workaround is to use an earlier Cygwin (such as .18) but that
> really isn't a great idea since you will also have to downgrade a
> handful of other packages (coreutils, findutils, bash, libreadline,
> others?) Or someone may have tracked down the issue in cvs, I'm not
> sure.
yes, that really not a good idea.
I'm trying to develop a Eclipse-Plugin for local CVS without SSH. It
would be nice, if cvs would run in servermode - by either fixing CVS or
cygwin - well, one of the two has to be fixed.
Greetings
Sven
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