Re: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages

[Michael Lemke <lemkemch at t-online dot de>]

Larry Hall (Cygwin <reply-to-list-only-lh <at> cygwin.com> writes:

> 
> Nicholas Thayer wrote:
> > Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:41:23PM +0000, Michael Lemke wrote:
> >>
> >>> Igor Peshansky <pechtcha <at> cs.nyu.edu> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> 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.
> >>>
>

Today I did try the latest snapshot (20060622) and it fixes the problem.  With 
1.5.19 it does not work.  This was a fresh compile of cvs 1.12.12.  So this is a 
cygwin error after all.  How much longer do we have to wait for a non-snapshot 
fix?  This has been broken for more than 5 months now.

Michael


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