Bug Report: CVS often fails in scripts under Cygwin

[Charles Wilson]

Josh Schulte wrote:
> 
> When I use CVS in scripts under Cygwin I often get "cvs: permission denied".
> This happens in perl and shell scripts. Not every cvs command will fail. But
> the ones that fail seem to consistently fail. For instance the following
> script:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> cvs edit build.txt
> echo "test" > build.txt
> cvs commit -m test build.txt
> 
> gives the following output:
> 
> cvs: permission denied
> cvs: permission denied
> 
> I ran this on Solaris to verify that I wasn't missing something, and of
> course it worked.
> 

Can you run these three commands from the shell by hand without error?

$ cvs edit build.txt
$ echo "test" > build.txt
$ cvs commit -m test build.txt

--Chuck

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