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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "Alexey Lyubimov" <alexeipobox AT yahoo DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Subversion 1.2.0: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:22:16 +0100
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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 AT subversion DOT t DOT 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.


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