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Re: rcs ci fails under cygwin; ci foo hangs leaving a lock file RCS/fo_
- To: "Tolkin, Steve" <Steve dot Tolkin at fmr dot com>, <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: rcs ci fails under cygwin; ci foo hangs leaving a lock file RCS/fo_
- From: "Uwe H. Steinfeld" <usteinfeld at nikocity dot de>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 19:59:46 +0200
- References: <F614BF868E0DD411A5A700508B957E0038D007@MSGBOS679NTS.fmr.com>
----- Original Message -----
From: Tolkin, Steve <Steve.Tolkin@fmr.com>
Subject: rcs ci fails under cygwin; ci foo hangs leaving a lock file RCS/fo_
>
> I have been using this successfully in a DOS box for months.
> But when I run it under cygwin ci foo hangs (for every file foo I have
> tried).
> It creates a lock file named RCS/fo_
> but never gets any further. What is the problem?
> rcsdiff and co work fine in cygwin, so I suspect the problem is that some
> file is not writable.
>
Try "export RCSINIT=-x"
Uwe
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