cvs update: error reading...
Charles S. Wilson
cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Wed Oct 11 06:02:00 GMT 2000
It's a cygwin bug, not a cvs bug. From /usr/doc/Cygwin/cvs-1.10.8:
> Jason Tishler reported that cvs gives annoying errors when using
> cvs in client mode (e.g. using rsh) on Win98
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-08/msg00462.html
>
> $ cvs update
> cvs update: error reading current directory: Function not implemented
>
> but the update functions properly.
>
> status: Probably fixed by a post-1.1.4 changes to cygwin. If you
> observe this problem, please try a post-1.1.4 development snapshot
> of cygwin (or cygwin-1.1.5 if it's available) -- but be warned: as
> always, development snapshots are unsupported and not guaranteed to
> work.
Try the latest cygwin snapshot and use the /usr/bin/cvs.
--Chuck
Fons Rademakers wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> with the latest cygwin I got the new cvs 1.10.8. However, running the
> command:
>
> cvs -q update
>
> in a locally checkedout directory I get many messages:
>
> cvs update: error reading current directory: Function not implemented
>
> The "old" 1.10 version of cvs provided by cygutils does not generate this
> error message. I re-installed this cygutils version in /usr/local/bin and
> use that now. Better would be to have a patch for the 1.10.8 that comes
> with cygwin.
>
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