Subject: Re: Changes in latest snapshot
From: egor duda <[email-masked]>
To: Charles Wilson <[email-masked]>
Cc: Shankar Unni <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 22:12:08 +0400

Hi!

Wednesday, 15 May, 2002 Charles Wilson [email-masked] wrote:

CW> Then, you switch to binmode, and do another cvslogin, resulting in this:

CW> :pserver:[email-masked]:/cvs/src Ay=0=h<Z \r\n
CW> :pserver:[email-masked]:/cvs A \r\n
CW> :pserver:[email-masked]:/cvs/src Ay=0=h<Z \n   <<<< no \r

CW> The next time the .cvspass file is read in, cvs is confused  by the 
CW> presence of the \r's in the first two lines.  (Which it never saw 
CW> before, thanks to textmode).

CW> Use switch back to binmode, use dos2unix on .cvspass (and .cvsrc for 
CW> that matter), and try again...

Doesn't it seem to you that we should rather patch cvs to open
.cvspass in textmode? IIRC, \r is not a valid symbol for encrypted
passwords, so it can be safely skipped.

i use "binmode everywhere" myself, but i suppose we'll have yet
another binmode/textmode hell here after changing the default.

Egor.            mailto:[email-masked] ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19

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