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See the Cederqvist manual (cvs.texinfo) for information on how to
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report bugs (and what will happen to your bug reports if you do).
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The following is a list of some of the known bugs. It may or may not
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be comprehensive. We would dearly love for people to volunteer to
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help us keep it up to date (for starters, if you notice any
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inaccuracies, please let bug-cvs know as described in the Cederqvist
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manual). There are some other reported bugs in MINOR-BUGS; the
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difference, at least in theory, is that those bugs are less serious.
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* For platform-specific information (in some cases including known
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bugs), see README.VMS, windows-NT/README, or os2/README. There is no
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similar file for the unix-like operating systems (not yet, at least).
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This file also might contain some platform-specific bugs.
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* If your login name contains a space or various other characters
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(particularly an issue on Windows), CVS will have trouble (it will
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write invalid RCS files, probably). The fix would be to have CVS
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change such characters to underscores before writing them to the RCS
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file. Furthermore, the LOGNAME or USER environment variables usually
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won't override the system login name, so this can be hard to work
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around.
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* If you specify the -w global option to client/server CVS, it only
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overrides a CVSREAD environment variable set on the client, not a
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CVSREAD variable which was set on the server (for example, in .bashrc
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when the server was run via rsh). The fix of course will be to
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provide a "Option-read-write" request which sends -w, in addition to
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"Global_option -r" which sends -r.
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* Symbolic links to files will not work with or without LockDir. In the
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repository, you should avoid using symbolic links to files since this issue
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can cause data loss. Symlinks are only a problem when writing files. If your
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repository does not allow any write access, symlinks are not a problem.
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* Symbolic links to directories will not work with LockDir. In the
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repository, you should avoid using symbolic links to directories if
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you intend to use LockDir as the correct directory will NOT be locked
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by CVS during write. Directory symlinks are not recommended, but should work
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as long as LockDir is not being used. Symlinks are only a problem when
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writing files. If your repository does not allow any write access, symlinks
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are never a problem, whether or not LockDir is in use.
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* The -m option to "cvs add" does not work with client/server CVS.
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CVS will accept the option, but it won't actually set the
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file's description.
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* cvs update walks into a user's work directory if there's a directory
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of the same name in the repository even if the user's directory
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doesn't yet have a CVS admin sub-directory. This can greatly confuse
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users who try to add the same directory at nearly the same time.
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* From: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@ai.mit.edu>
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To: info-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu
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Subject: Still one more bug
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Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 17:01:15 -0500
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mycroft@duality [1]; cd /usr/src/lib/libc
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mycroft@duality [1]; cvs diff -C2 '-D1 day ago' -Dnow
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cvs server: Diffing .
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cvs server: Diffing DB
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cvs [server aborted]: could not chdir to DB: No such file or directory
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mycroft@duality [1];
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`DB' is an old directory, which no longer has files in it, and is
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removed automatically when I use the `-P' option to checkout.
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This error doesn't occur when run locally.
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P.S. Is anyone working on fixing these bugs?
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* CVS does not always seem to be waiting to the next filesystem timestamp
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quanta after commits. So far this has only shown up in testing under the BSDI
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OS. The symptoms are that ocassionally CVS will not notice that modified files
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are modified, though the file must be modified within a short time after the
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commit, probably milliseconds or seconds, for this symptom to be noticed. One
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suspected cause is that one of the calls to sleep_past() is being called with
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an incorrect value, though this does not explain why symptoms have only been
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noticed under BSDI.
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* Spaces in arguments to `cvs diff' are currently split on spaces and tabs
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before being passed to diff. This can often cause diff to abort since it can
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no longer interpret its options string and if it can, coincidentally,
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interpret its option string, then the problem may be output in unexpected
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formats.
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* Status
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/*-------.
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| Stable |
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`-------*/
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/*-------------------------.
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| Sane for full scale use. |
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`-------------------------*/
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