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On 6/5/2009 2:08 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun  4 14:33, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Did we discuss this already? 

No.

> Can you nail down the problem into a simple testcase?

I kinda doubt it. Subversion is using APR to move a file, and the error 
occurs only sporadically if some other Windows program (e.g., virus 
scanner) has the file that's being moved open. Do you expect that to 
work with 1.7?

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