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Subject: Re: Cygwin CVS trailing dot problem
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Hi Igor,

Thanks for your reply and sorry for noting knowing the policy of PPIOSPE :-)
Have a nice day.

Joy

> Hi, Joy,
>
> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE>.  It is usually a bad idea to send
> email to random Cygwin mailing list participants, rather than asking on
> the Cygwin mailing list.  I'm redirecting this reply to the appropriate
> list.
>
> On Sat, 13 May 2006, Joy wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi Igor,
>>
>> I had the problem with Cygwin+CVS+SSH when trying to access the remote CVS
>> repository via SSH, CVS reports that:
>> cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-serv1992/.
>> No such file or directory
>>
>> My CVS setup worked fine until I updated my CVS yesterday. I didn't realize
>> the problem was caused by the trailing dot till I saw your post:
>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-03/msg00576.html
>>     
>
> Your problem was most likely caused by updating Cygwin, rather than CVS.
>
>   
>> Do you know whether there is a solution to this now?
>>     
>
> Yes, Cygwin's mkdir/rmdir returned an error code that CVS didn't know to
> ignore.  This was fixed in the Cygwin snapshots (and will be fixed in the
> next released version).  For now, you can try a snapshot from
> <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>.
> HTH,
> 	Igor
>   


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