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Re: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages


On Wed, 10 May 2006, Nicholas Thayer wrote:

> Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 May 2006, Nicholas Thayer wrote:
> >
> > > After upgrading to the latest cygwin packages (coreutils, findutils,
> > > cygwin), the cvs pserver fails for updates and checkouts.
> > > [snip]
> > > $ 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.
>
> Are you referring to a cygwin unstable development snapshot or a cvs
> development snapshot?

Since it was a Cygwin but that got fixed, I would recommend a Cygwin
snapshot[*].  Though there may now be a workaround for this in the CVS
unstable, as well...
	Igor
[*] <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>
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