X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4462BADD.6060504@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 00:17:33 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages References: <051020061912.15752.44623B370003AC8000003D8822007613940A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <051020061912.15752.44623B370003AC8000003D8822007613940A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Eric Blake wrote: >>> $ cvs co test >>> cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-serv3172/. >>> No such file or directory >> This was a bug in Cygwin 1.5.19, which returned the wrong error code for >> creating this directory, and CVS didn't know to ignore it. Try a >> snapshot. > > It wasn't the 'wrong' errno, so much as a different errno than Linux > used in the same situation, and a bug that still exists in CVS for > blindly assuming that only the Linux errno will be used even on > non-Linux platforms. POSIX allows any number of errno > returns when more than one simultaneous error condition exists. Well now. That's news to me. I thought it WAS a pure cygwin bug, not a misinterpretation of POSIX by the cvs guys. After folks discovered the errno issue and it was "fixed" in the cygwin snapshots, I said "I don't want to clutter up the cvs sourcecode with a workaround for a bug that's already fixed. We'll just wait for cygwin-1.5.20" Given Eric's explanation, that was the wrong decision. Given the controversy over cvs-1.11.21, I'll release an update of cvs-1.11.17 with a workaround for this...difference of opinion? as soon as I can. Which would be sooner if someone sent me a P to TC. -- Chuck -- 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/