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Re: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, Nicholas Thayer <ndthayer at comcast dot net>
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 19:12:55 +0000
- Subject: Re: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages
> > $ 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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