X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43E425DE.AEB7CB93@dessent.net> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 19:56:14 -0800 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cvs is broken/cygwin-bug in mkdir()? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id k143uPsa005176 Sven Köhler wrote: > 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: 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. 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. Brian -- 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/