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On 6/3/2009 8:37 AM, David Rothenberger wrote:
> On 6/3/2009 8:20 AM, masc wrote:
>> When using cygwin's cvs2svn with subversion (1.6.2 r37639) while running
>> Avira AntiVir (http://www.avira.com/en/pages/index.php), svnadmin is 
>> failing
>> sporadically due to permission failure moving files.
> 
> The subversion code base has some hacks to retry various file operations 
> to work around this issue. These hacks are enabled for a Windows build 
> but not for Cygwin. I've attempted to port these hacks to Cygwin, but I 
> may have missed an error code or three, thus not retrying some errors 
> that should be retried.

I just uploaded a new version of Subversion for 1.5 with a fix for the 
retry patch. I had missed a case when moving files.

> Are you using Cygwin 1.5 or 1.7? I have disabled this hack in the 1.7 
> build because I was hoping 1.7's more robust file renaming and deleting 
> code would come to the rescue.

It turns out that these problems still occur with 1.7, although less 
frequently, so I've also released new Subversion packages for 1.7 with 
the updated retry patch added.

-- 
David Rothenberger  ----  daveroth AT acm DOT org

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