Re: CVS server on WinNT.

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

--- Brendan Simon <bsimon@ctam.com.au> wrote:
> A few simple questions (I hope) on running CVS as a server on a WinNT
> machine.  I would prefer to run it on a Linux box but I might not have a
> choice.
> 
> Can a CVS server run on NT ?  I assume so if using cygwin.
> 

I haven't looked at the source to know; but, I would assume that you need the
other services such as INETD or RPC.  It should work fine on NT with cygwin.

> Will it talk to clients on any platform (ie. checkin/checkout from
> Win95/98/NT, Linux, Unix, etc) ?
> 

If you have the INETD and RPC it shouldn't be a problem.

> Is running CVS server on NT as secure as a CVS server on Linux ?
> 

I don't know, the only thing I've seen in print is from the article that Chris
gave the address to last week.  It stated something about the shared memory may
be a security risk.

> What about the reliability of cygwin on NT ?  I THINK (not 100% sure)

The only problem I've had at all on NT is with broken snapshots.

BTW, the current version of CVS builds OOB with Cygwin.


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Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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