X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4A283DC3.4060404@acm.org> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:33:55 -0700 From: David Rothenberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090302 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: FAQ 4.46, applications interfere with subversion or not? References: <23853503.post@talk.nabble.com> <4A2698BB.4060404@acm.org> In-reply-to: <4A2698BB.4060404@acm.org> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 6/3/2009 8:37 AM, David Rothenberger wrote: > On 6/3/2009 8:20 AM, masc wrote: >> When using cygwin's cvs2svn with subversion (1.6.2 r37639) while running >> Avira AntiVir (http://www.avira.com/en/pages/index.php), svnadmin is >> failing >> sporadically due to permission failure moving files. > > The subversion code base has some hacks to retry various file operations > to work around this issue. These hacks are enabled for a Windows build > but not for Cygwin. I've attempted to port these hacks to Cygwin, but I > may have missed an error code or three, thus not retrying some errors > that should be retried. I just uploaded a new version of Subversion for 1.5 with a fix for the retry patch. I had missed a case when moving files. > Are you using Cygwin 1.5 or 1.7? I have disabled this hack in the 1.7 > build because I was hoping 1.7's more robust file renaming and deleting > code would come to the rescue. It turns out that these problems still occur with 1.7, although less frequently, so I've also released new Subversion packages for 1.7 with the updated retry patch added. -- David Rothenberger ---- daveroth@acm.org QOTD: All I want is a little more than I'll ever get. -- 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/