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To: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: CVS :pserver: bug -- can't get winsup from Win2k + Cygwin 1.1.8-2
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From: ht AT cogsci DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk (Henry S. Thompson)
Date: 01 Feb 2001 15:20:24 +0000
In-Reply-To: "Charles S. Wilson"'s message of "Thu, 01 Feb 2001 10:13:09 -0500"
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"Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> writes:

> Steve Hirsh in Dec 1999 (Looonnnggg before Corinna's fix) said the
> following about an identical error message ("cvs.exe [checkout aborted]:
> writing to server: The descriptor is a file, not a socket") that he
> experienced when trying to use a local repository:
> > For whatever reason, no one else is reporting this runtime error.  The
> > error is coming from a section of code that tries to flush a buffer back
> > to the server in client.c of cvs.

<snip summary="lots of useful background, possible VPN interaction signalled"/>

Thanks a lot -- I do have VPN installed (although I'm not using it
when the error occurs). . .

> Henry, I think you're going to have to use gdb and trace through the
> program's operation to debug this.  I do not see the problem (Win2Ksp1,
> 1.1.8, connecting to :pserver:anoncvs AT anoncvs DOT cygnus DOT com:/cvs/src works
> fine), so there's no way I can debug it for you.  Take a good look at
> Steve's message referenced above, and set a few breakpoints at the code
> he indicates in client.c -- BTW, this means you'll have to download
> cvs-1.11.0-1-src.tar.gz and build your own cvs.exe with debugging (-g)
> enabled, and don't strip the executable (the distribution version of
> cvs.exe is stripped, so it's not readily debuggable).  Note that
> /usr/doc/Cygwin/cvs-1.11.0.README contains build instructions. 

Will (try to) do -- tomorrow, probably.

Thanks again for helping me understand what to do to try to help
find/fix this.

ht
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