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Subject: Re: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 19:12:55 +0000
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> > $ 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.

-- 
Eric Blake

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