Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <038701c5a411$000e65b0$5308a8c0@chimaera> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Alexey Lyubimov" , References: <20050817171351.57728.qmail@web33208.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Subversion 1.2.0: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:22:16 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Alexey Lyubimov wrote: > Hello Max! > Thank you for the "/cygdrive/c" advice. It works for > SVN import, but it doesn't work for SVN co :( > I've post the question about the local repositories > under Win98 to Subversion forum and got the following > answer from Ben Collins-Sussman: > > "The problem is that the svn_repos_open() call tries > to take out a shared lock on a particular file, and > win98 doesn't support shared locks. It turns out that > this feature is only necessary for BDB repositories > (so that 'svnadmin recover' can grab an exclusive lock > on the same file). What we need to do is change that > function to *not* attempt to grab shared locks if the > repository is FSFS. I don't think anyone has gotten > around to it yet. :-/" > > Will you provide a patch for Win98 users? Friends of > mine and me have several Win98 boxes and we are ready > to test the patch! Reading the SVN forum I know that > we are not alone :) I've started a discussion over on dev@subversion.t.o Unfortunately, I don't have *any* Win9x machines [hmm.... did I just say *un*fortunately? :-) ], so I'm totally incapable of testing this myself. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/