Subject: RE: Patch for reliable rcs on win95
From: [email-masked] (Sergey Okhapkin)

19 Mar 1997 04:29:51 -0800
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Original-To: Jim Balter <[email-masked]>, "'Mikey'" <[email-masked]>
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Mikey wrote:
> when you read through the strace.log file, you should see something like
> 
> read (3, 0x4683004, 1024)
> 1024=read(3, 0x4683004, 1024)
> write (4, 0x4683004, 1024)
> 1024 = write(4, 0x4683004, 1024)
> read (3, 0x4683004, 1024)
> 921 = read(3, 0x4683004, 1024)  << short read
> write (4, 0x4683004, 1024)  << ignored
> 
> This will give you a truncated RCS/filename,v

You can avoid this problems if You will open this files in binary mode, or remount all your directories as binary.

-- 
Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job.

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